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CHITTAMWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke

Synonyms:

American smokewood; chittamwood; Cotinus americanus; Cotinus obovatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chittamwood" is a kind of...):

smoke bush; smoke tree (any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico

Synonyms:

black haw; Bumelia lanuginosa; chittamwood; chittimwood; false buckthorn; shittimwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chittamwood" is a kind of...):

buckthorn (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada

Synonyms:

bearberry; bearwood; cascara buckthorn; chittamwood; chittimwood; Rhamnus purshianus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chittamwood" is a kind of...):

buckthorn (a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments)

Meronyms (parts of "chittamwood"):

cascara; cascara sagrada; chittam bark; chittem bark (dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative)

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