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prettygoodwordcascara (kas-KAIR-uh) - n., a North American buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), also called bearberry, whose bark is used as a laxative; the laxative, more commonly called cascara sagrada.
Also called cascara buckthorn or, in Chinook jargon, Chittam or Chitticum. Borrowed around 1880 from Spanish cáscara, bark, itself probably from cascar, to crack, break, from Vulgar Latin *quassicare, to shake, from Latin quassare, to shatter (the root of quash). The more common name for laxative means "sacred bark" in Spanish.
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Also called cascara buckthorn or, in Chinook jargon, Chittam or Chitticum. Borrowed around 1880 from Spanish cáscara, bark, itself probably from cascar, to crack, break, from Vulgar Latin *quassicare, to shake, from Latin quassare, to shatter (the root of quash). The more common name for laxative means "sacred bark" in Spanish.
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