CHITTEM BARK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative

Synonyms:

cascara; cascara sagrada; chittam bark; chittem bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chittem bark" is a kind of...):

bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

Holonyms ("chittem bark" is a part of...):

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

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