- Rhamnus purshiana
- 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
