cascara sagrada

cascara sa·gra·da  (s-gräd)

n.

The dried bark of the cascara buckthorn, used as a laxative.

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[American Spanish cáscara sagrada : Spanish cáscara, bark + Spanish sagrada, sacred.]

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cascara sagrada [səˈgrɑːdə]

n

(Medicine / Pharmacology) the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn, used as a stimulant and laxative Often shortened to cascara

[Spanish, literally: sacred bark]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cascara sagrada - dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative cascara, chittam bark, chittem bark bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus - shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada bark - tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants