buckthorn

buck·thorn  (bkthôrn)

n.

1. 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. See bumelia.

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[Translation of New Latin cerv spna : cerv, genitive of cervus, deer, buck + spna, thorn.]

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buckthorn [ˈbʌkˌθɔːn]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae See also sea buckthorn

[from buck¹ (from the spiny branches, imagined as resembling antlers) + thorn]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	buckthorn - a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems genus Rhamnus, Rhamnus - type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns buckthorn berry, yellow berry - fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus - shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada Carolina buckthorn, indian cherry, Rhamnus carolinianus - deciduous shrub of eastern and central United States having black berrylike fruit; golden-yellow in autumn California buckthorn, California coffee, coffeeberry, Rhamnus californicus - evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits alder buckthorn, alder dogwood, Rhamnus frangula - small tree common in Europe red-berry, redberry, Rhamnus croceus - small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries
	2.	buckthorn - any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia Bumelia, genus Bumelia - deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex Bumelia lycioides, shittim, southern buckthorn, shittimwood, mock orange - shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, false buckthorn, shittimwood, chittamwood, chittimwood - deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	3.	buckthorn - an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass plantain - any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally

Translations

buckthorn [ˈbʌkθɔːn] N → espino m cerval