Shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke

• Yields cascara sagrada
• Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
• Shrubby tree of United States Pacific coast

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada [syn: cascara buckthorn , bearberry , bearwood , chittimwood , Rhamnus purshianus ] deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico [syn: false buckthorn , chittimwood ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
chittamwood \chittamwood\ n. 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, ...