cascara sagrada

Noun Phrase

cas=ca=ra sa=gra=da

WORDNET DICTIONARY

cascara sagrada(n = noun.plant) cascara, chittam bark, chittem bark - dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; Array

is a part of bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, rhamnus purshianus

is a kind of bark

cascara sagrada, [Sp.].

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative; -- called also cascara. [1913 Webster]

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