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BUCKTHORN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

Synonyms:

buckthorn; English plantain; narrow-leaved plantain; Plantago lanceolata; ribgrass; ribwort; ripple-grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("buckthorn" is a kind 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("buckthorn" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buckthorn"):

Bumelia lycioides; mock orange; shittim; shittimwood; southern buckthorn (shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit)

black haw; Bumelia lanuginosa; chittamwood; chittimwood; false buckthorn; shittimwood (deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico)

Holonyms ("buckthorn" is a member of...):

Bumelia; genus Bumelia (deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("buckthorn" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "buckthorn"):

buckthorn berry; yellow berry (fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buckthorn"):

bearberry; bearwood; cascara buckthorn; chittamwood; chittimwood; Rhamnus purshianus (shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada)

Carolina buckthorn; indian cherry; Rhamnus carolinianus (deciduous shrub of eastern and central United States having black berrylike fruit; golden-yellow in autumn)

California buckthorn; California coffee; coffeeberry; Rhamnus californicus (evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits)

alder buckthorn; alder dogwood; Rhamnus frangula (small tree common in Europe)

red-berry; redberry; Rhamnus croceus (small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries)

Holonyms ("buckthorn" is a member of...):

genus Rhamnus; Rhamnus (type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns)

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