chittamwood

2 definitions found

chittamwood - 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]

chittamwood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  chittamwood
      n 1: shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States;
           yields cascara sagrada [syn: cascara buckthorn,
           bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood,
           Rhamnus purshianus]
      2: deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico [syn:
         false buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood,
         shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa]
      3: shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of
         feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke [syn: American   smokewood
         , chittamwood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus   obovatus
         ]