The Collaborative International Dictionary
chittamwood \chittamwood\ n.
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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.
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a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
Syn: false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa.
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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.
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 \cascara\ n. the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; -- called also cascara sagrada.
Syn: chittam bark, chittem bark.
Wiktionary
n. The bark of the California buckthorn ((taxlink Rhamnus purshiana species)), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
WordNet
n. dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative [syn: cascara, chittam bark, chittem bark]
Usage examples of "cascara sagrada".
Its use has been, however, somewhat neglected and the much advertized Cascara Sagrada (R.
On Friday nights I was given cascara sagrada, which rounded up the poisons as I slept, and on Saturday morning, before breakfast, I was given a glass of Epsom salts to drive them forth.