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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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... outline above its fellows. Spruces and firs, such as adorn our gardens, cluster in never-ending profusion; and aromatic and unwonted odor pervades the air—the spicy breath of resinous balsams. Sometimes the sense is touched with a new fragrance, and presently we see a buckthorn, white with a thousand blossoms. These, however, only meet us at times. The distinct and characteristic feature of the forest is conveyed in that one ...

— Acadia - or, A Month with the Blue Noses • Frederic S. Cozzens

... 'the master' from the distant bog. They had no children; but Andy, Katty's brother (a gossoon of thirteen), eyed the simple supper anxiously, going from time to time to the door to see if he could see the well-known gray horses coming by the old buckthorn, where the little ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... infectorius).—These berries are the produce of a shrub of a species of buckthorn common in Persia, whence they derive their name; but large quantities are also imported into England from Turkey and the south of France. The berries are gathered in an unripe state, and furnish a ...

— French Polishing and Enamelling - A Practical Work of Instruction • Richard Bitmead