BUCKTHORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buckthorn mean? 

• BUCKTHORN (noun)
  The noun BUCKTHORN has 3 senses:

1. a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

2. any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

3. an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

  Familiarity information: BUCKTHORN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCKTHORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "buckthorn"):

buckthorn berry; yellow berry (fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buckthorn"):

bearberry; bearwood; cascara buckthorn; chittamwood; chittimwood; Rhamnus purshianus (shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada)

Carolina buckthorn; indian cherry; Rhamnus carolinianus (deciduous shrub of eastern and central United States having black berrylike fruit; golden-yellow in autumn)

California buckthorn; California coffee; coffeeberry; Rhamnus californicus (evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits)

alder buckthorn; alder dogwood; Rhamnus frangula (small tree common in Europe)

red-berry; redberry; Rhamnus croceus (small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries)

Holonyms ("buckthorn" is a member of...):

genus Rhamnus; Rhamnus (type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buckthorn"):

Bumelia lycioides; mock orange; shittim; shittimwood; southern buckthorn (shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit)

black haw; Bumelia lanuginosa; chittamwood; chittimwood; false buckthorn; shittimwood (deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico)

Holonyms ("buckthorn" is a member of...):

Bumelia; genus Bumelia (deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buckthorn; English plantain; narrow-leaved plantain; Plantago lanceolata; ribgrass; ribwort; ripple-grass

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

plantain (any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally)