What is "chittamwood"

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.

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

2. deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico [syn: false buckthorn, 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, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus]