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Noun: cascara  kas'keh-ru or kas'ka-ru [N. Amer], kas'kaa-ru or kas'ka-ru [Brit]
  1. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
    - cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark

Derived forms: cascaras

Type of: bark

Part of: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus

Encyclopedia: Cascara