cascara \cascara\ n. the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; -- called also cascara sagrada.

Syn: chittam bark, chittem bark. [WordNet 1.5]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Cascara buckthorn \Cas"ca*ra buck"thorn`\ (Bot.) The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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Cascara sagrada \Cas"ca*ra sa*gra"da\ (k[.a]s"k[.a]*r[.a] s[.a]*gr[aum]"d[.a]). [Sp.]

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative; -- called also cascara. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

chittamwood \chittamwood\ n.

1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

Syn: cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. [WordNet 1.5]

2. a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.

Syn: false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. [WordNet 1.5]

3. a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.

Syn: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus. [WordNet 1.5]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

cascara sagrada

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Cascara sagrada \Cas"ca*ra sa*gra"da\ [Sp.]

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)