noun
1. shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
• Syn: ↑cascara buckthorn, ↑bearwood, ↑chittamwood, ↑chittimwood, ↑Rhamnus purshianus
• Hypernyms: ↑buckthorn
• Part Meronyms: ↑cascara, ↑cascara sagrada, ↑chittam bark, ↑chittem bark
2. deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States
• Syn: ↑possum haw, ↑winterberry, ↑Ilex decidua
• Hypernyms: ↑holly
3. chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas
• Hyponyms:
↑common bearberry, ↑red bearberry, ↑wild cranberry, ↑mealberry, ↑hog cranberry, ↑sand berry, ↑sandberry, ↑mountain box, ↑bear's grape, ↑creashak, ↑Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, ↑alpine bearberry, ↑black bearberry, ↑Arctostaphylos alpina
• Member Holonyms: ↑Arctostaphylos, ↑genus Arctostaphylos
Useful english dictionary. 2012.