Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The dried bark of the cascara buckthorn, used as a laxative.
Wiktionary
- n. The bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative; -- called also
cascara .
WordNet 3.0
- n. dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
Etymologies
- Spanish holy bark. (Wiktionary)
- American Spanish cáscara sagrada : Spanish cáscara, bark + Spanish sagrada, sacred. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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