Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun buckthorn

3 senses of buckthorn

Sense 1
buckthorn -- (a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Sense 2
buckthorn -- (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Sense 3
English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, buckthorn, Plantago lanceolata -- (an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions)
       => plantain -- (any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally)