Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bark canoe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; -- called also cascara sagrada.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A North American buckthorn, Rhamnus purshiana, whose bark is used as a laxative

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  • noun dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative

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Examples

  • • Contains herbal extracts such as cascara sagrada and ginger to safely activate colon muscles

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Nutrition 2010

  • • Contains herbal extracts such as cascara sagrada and ginger to safely activate colon muscles

    Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010

  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana.

    What to do with dried shrimp?? 2009

  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana.

    What to do with dried shrimp?? 2009

  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana.

    What to do with dried shrimp?? 2009

  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana.

    What to do with dried shrimp?? 2009

  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana.

    What to do with dried shrimp?? 2009

  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana.

    What to do with dried shrimp?? 2009

  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana.

    What to do with dried shrimp?? 2009

  • The first Supreme Court case involved the prosecution of the Buffalo Pharmacal Company, Inc., along with its president and general manager Joseph H. Dotterweich, under the misdemeanor provisions of the Food and Drug Act for shipping "misbranded drugs" -- to wit, "cascara compound" containing strychnine sulfate.

    Rena Steinzor: Sending Don Blankenship to Jail: A Legal Argument 2010

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  • None of the definitions reference the use of cascara to describe tea made from the dried coffee cherry.

    October 31, 2017