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Buckthorn  n.  (Bot.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophae.





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"Buckthorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... laxatives and purgatives. Manna, tamarinds, castor oil, sulphur, and magnesia are laxatives; senna, rhubarb, jalap, colocynth, buckthorn, aloes, cream of tartar, scammony, calomel, Epsom salts, Glauber's salts, sulphate of potash, and Venice turpentine ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... Bark of the cascara [buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana) native to northwest North America], used as a ...
— The Veterinarian • Chas. J. Korinek
... SEA BUCKTHORN.—This is a scarce shrub; but is very useful as a plant for forming shelter on the hills near the sea-coast, it having been found to stand the sea-breeze better than any plant of the kind that is indigenous to ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury


Words linked to "Buckthorn" :   ribgrass, Bumelia lanuginosa, red-berry, ripple-grass, alder dogwood, alder buckthorn, southern buckthorn, Rhamnus, plantain, genus Rhamnus, shittimwood, narrow-leaved plantain, shrub, chittimwood, California buckthorn, Rhamnus californicus, English plantain, chittamwood, Carolina buckthorn, Rhamnus carolinianus, yellow berry, coffeeberry, cascara buckthorn, Bumelia lycioides, California coffee, false buckthorn, bearwood, buckthorn berry


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