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American smoke tree

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.

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

    Syn: false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa.

  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.