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chittamwood
(encz) | chittamwood, n: |
chittamwood
(gcide) | 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
(wn) | 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}] |
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