1. Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
   "The chittamwood provided shade in the Texas landscape";
   - false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa
    
2. Shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
   "The chittamwood's flower plumes create a smoky effect in the garden";
   - American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus
    
3. Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
   "Native Americans traditionally harvested chittamwood bark for medicinal use";
   - cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus

Derived forms: chittamwoods

Type of: buckthorn, smoke bush, smoke tree

Encyclopedia: Chittamwood