buckthorn

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"If buckthorn-control is not started immediately, the entire swamp could be classified as a buckthorn thicket and the invasion of buckthorn on the open bog mat advanced," Bergsma and Quinlan warn.

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  1. noun Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhamnus, which includes several ornamentals and a few medicinal species such as the cascara buckthorn.
  2. noun See bumelia.

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  • The buckthorn was planted to feed Canada's Second World War efforts. —  London Free Press - News
  • "If buckthorn-control is not started immediately, the entire swamp could be classified as a buckthorn thicket and the invasion of buckthorn on the open bog mat advanced," Bergsma and Quinlan warn. —  London Free Press - News
  • Fingering blame on the not - so-natural causes is made challenging by the many suspects: An invasive plant called buckthorn, a large population of deer after decades in which they were absent, the effects of development all around the bog and the intrusive behaviour of people both in the bog and around its edges. —  London Free Press - News
  • Volunteers worked from 1 to 4 p.m. cutting and sawing buckthorn, honeysuckle and autumn olive shrubs. —  Paul & Matt's Sports Attack
  • HELPING OUT: Department of Natural Resource Steward Laurel Malvitz-Draper explains to volunteers Sunday how to identify glossy buckthorn, one of the invasive shrubs found at Algonac State Park. —  Paul & Matt's Sports Attack
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  1. Translation of New Latin cervī spīna : cervī, genitive of cervus, deer, buck + spīna, thorn.

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  1. from buck + thorn. According to some, a mistaken rendering of the G. buxdorn, a translation of the Greek πυξάκανθα, ‘boxthorn,’ of Dioscorides.
 

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