chittamwood

• ⇰ a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (<spn>Rhamnus purshianus</spn> or <spn>Rhamnus purshiana</spn>), whose bark is the <prod>cascara sagrada</prod>, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
• ⇰ a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
• ⇰ a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (<spn>Cotinus obovatus</spn>) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree>.