chittamwood

Noun

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

• deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico

• shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada

Related words

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