Noun: cascara kas'keh-ru or kas'ka-ru [N. Amer], kas'kaa-ru or kas'ka-ru [Brit]
- Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
"Cascara was once a popular natural laxative"; "cascara sagrada was once a popular natural laxative";
- cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark
Derived forms: cascaras
Type of: bark
Part of: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus
Encyclopedia: Cascara