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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

... the part he was in well enough, and it amused him as he fought his way on, to think of the struggles Macey, a London boy, was having to get through the tangle of briar and furze. For he had often spent an hour in the place with the doctor, collecting buckthorn and coral-moss, curious lichens, sphagnum, and the round, and long-leaved sundews, or butterwort: for all these plants abounded here, with the bramble and bracken. There were plenty of other bog plants, too, in the little pools and patches of water, while ...

— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn

... high brush, some of it very beautiful. The buckthorn, for example, was just coming out; and the dogwood, and the mountain laurel. At first these clumps of bush were few and scattered; and the surface of the hills, carpeted with short grass, rolled gently away, or broke in stone dikes and outcrops. ...

— Gold • Stewart White