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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
buckthorn
 
SYLLABICATION:buck·thorn
PRONUNCIATION:  bkthôrn
NOUN:1. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhamnus, which includes several ornamentals and a few medicinal species such as the cascara buckthorn. 2. See bumelia.
ETYMOLOGY:Translation of New Latin cerv spna : cerv, genitive of cervus, deer, buck + spna, thorn.
 
 
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