cascara sagrada
    n 1: dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
         [syn: cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark,
         chittem bark]

cascara \cascara\ n.
   the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative;
   -- called also cascara sagrada.

   Syn: chittam bark, chittem bark.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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 sagrada \Cas"ca*ra sa*gra"da\ (k[.a]s"k[.a]*r[.a]
   s[.a]*gr[aum]"d[.a]). [Sp.]
   Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus
   Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative; -- called
   also cascara.
   [1913 Webster]

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]