Noun: cascara buckthorn
- Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
"Native Americans traditionally harvested cascara buckthorn bark for medicinal use";
- bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus
Derived forms: cascara buckthorns
Type of: buckthorn
Encyclopedia: Cascara buckthorn