cascara : Idioms & Phrases

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cascara buckthorn

  • noun shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
    bearberry; Rhamnus purshianus; chittamwood; chittimwood; bearwood.
WordNet

cascara sagrada

  • noun dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
    chittem bark; cascara; chittam bark.
WordNet
Cas"ca*ra sa*gra"da
Etymology
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Definitions
  1. Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Webster 1913