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Buckthorn

noun

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

Any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia.

An Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions. Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass.

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"Buckthorn" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the sea at the jaws of the great side canyons, is found to be the most impenetrable and tedious and toilsome combination of fighting bushes that the weary explorer ever fell into, incomparably more punishing than the buckthorn and manzanita ...

— Travels in Alaska • John Muir

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