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CASCARA SAGRADA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
Synonyms:
cascara; cascara sagrada; chittam bark; chittem bark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cascara sagrada" is a kind of...):
bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)
Holonyms ("cascara sagrada" is a part of...):
bearberry; bearwood; cascara buckthorn; chittamwood; chittimwood; Rhamnus purshianus (shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada)