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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Buckthorn \Buck"thorn'\, noun (Bot.) A genus ({Rhamnus}) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See {Rhamnus}.
{Sea buckthorn}, a plant of the genus {Hippopha["e]}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
buckthorn
noun
1: a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments
2: any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia
3: an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions [syn: {English plantain}, {narrow-leaved plantain}, {ribgrass}, {ribwort}, {ripple-grass}, {Plantago lanceolata}]
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