Noun: chittimwood
- Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
"The chittimwood provided shade in the Texas landscape";
- false buckthorn, chittamwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa
- Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
"Native Americans traditionally harvested chittimwood bark for medicinal use";
- cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus
Derived forms: chittimwoods
Type of: buckthorn
Encyclopedia: Chittimwood