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"Buckthorn" Definition

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.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

See bumelia.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

Any of a genus ( of the family Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family) of often thorny trees or shrubs some of which yield purgatives or pigments.

Source: Merriam-Webster

A shrub or small tree () of the sapodilla family of the southern United States.

Source: Merriam-Webster

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