cascara buckthorn

2 definitions found

cascara buckthorn - 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.]

cascara buckthorn - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cascara buckthorn
      n 1: shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States;
           yields cascara sagrada [syn: cascara buckthorn,
           bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood,
           Rhamnus purshianus]