buckthorn

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Rhamnus purshianus, bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood

shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada

Carolina buckthorn, Rhamnus carolinianus, indian cherry

deciduous shrub of eastern and central United States having black berrylike fruit; golden-yellow in autumn

California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus, coffeeberry

evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits

Rhamnus frangula, alder buckthorn, alder dogwood

small tree common in Europe

Rhamnus croceus, red-berry, redberry

small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries

Type of:

bush, shrub

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Types:

Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, shittimwood, southern buckthorn

shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

Bumelia lanuginosa, black haw, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood

deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico

Type of:

bush, shrub

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Synonyms:

English plantain, Plantago lanceolata, narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass

Type of:

plantain

any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally