chittamwood

Meanings

Plural: chittamwoods

Noun

• shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
• deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
• shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
• A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree

Synonyms

American smokewood, bearberry, bearwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus, false buckthorn, Rhamnus purshianus, shittimwood