cascara buckthorn

1. 1.

   shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada

   SynonymsbearberrybearwoodchittamwoodchittimwoodRhamnus purshianus

   Broaderbuckthorn

   Partscascara

Questions about cascara buckthorn

What does cascara buckthorn mean?

cascara buckthorn means "shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada".

What is another word for cascara buckthorn?

Close synonyms include bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cascara buckthorn a common word?

cascara buckthorn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.