rhamnus purshianus

Questions about rhamnus purshianus

What does rhamnus purshianus mean?

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

What is another word for rhamnus purshianus?

Close synonyms include cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood. 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 rhamnus purshianus a common word?

rhamnus purshianus 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.