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chitlings |
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chiton |
chittagong |
chittam bark |
chittamwood
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chittamwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chittamwood has 3 senses
- chittamwood(n = noun.plant) bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, rhamnus purshianus - shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada; Array is a kind of buckthorn
- chittamwood(n = noun.plant) black haw, bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood - deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico; Array is a kind of buckthorn
- chittamwood(n = noun.plant) american smokewood, cotinus americanus, cotinus obovatus - shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; Array is a kind of smoke bush, smoke tree
has parts: cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark
CIDE DICTIONARY
chittamwood, n.
- a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (
Rhamnus purshianus orRhamnus purshiana ), whose bark is thecascara sagrada , used as a mild cathartic or laxative. [WordNet 1.5] - a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico. [WordNet 1.5]
- a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (
Cotinus obovatus ) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called alsoAmerican smoke tree . [WordNet 1.5]
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