Buck-thorn
1buck|thorn — «BUHK THRN», noun. 1. a small, thorny tree or shrub with clusters of black berries, each containing two to four tiny seeds. It belongs to the buckthorn family. 2. a low, thorny tree of the sapodilla family with black, cherrylike fruit, that grows …
2Buck Island National Wildlife Refuge — Infobox protected area | name = Buck Island National Wildlife Refuge iucn category = IV caption = locator x = 120 locator y = 68 location = Virgin Islands, USA nearest city = Charlotte Amalie, VI lat degrees = 18 lat minutes = 16 lat seconds = 41 …
3Thomas Thorn — Infobox musical artist Name = Thomas Torquemada Thorn Img capt = Background = solo singer Birth name = Thomas A. Lockyear, II Alias = Buck Ryder, Rev. Thomas Thorn Born = August 2nd, 1964 Origin = Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. Instrument = Vocals,… …
4Pat Buck — Infobox Wrestler name= img capt= names=Pat Buck Erotic Erraticator Ru Star height= height|ft=6|in=0 weight= convert|221|lb|kg|abbr=on|lk=on birth date = 1984 death date = birth place = Queens, New York, United States death place = resides=… …
5Jean-Baptiste Thorn — (17 March 1783 – 23 March 1841) was a Luxembourg born jurist and politician that held office in both Luxembourg and Belgium during and immediately after the Belgian Revolution.He was a member of the National Congress of Belgium (1830 – 1831), the …
6A buck of the first head — Head Head (h[e^]d), n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[ a]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[ o]fu[eth], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubi[thorn]. The word does not correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief},… …
7buckthorn — buck•thorn [[t]ˈbʌkˌθɔrn[/t]] n. 1) pln any of several often thorny trees or shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, of the buckthorn family 2) pln a thorny tree, Bumelia lycioides, of the sapodilla family, common in the southern U.S., having large clusters …
8buckthorn — SYN: Rhamnus. * * * buck·thorn bək .thȯ(ə)rn n a shrub or tree of the genus Rhamnus sometimes having thorny branches and often containing purgative principles in bark or sap and producing fruits sometimes used as a source of yellow and green… …
9Buckthorn — Buck thorn , n. (Bot.) A genus ({Rhamnus}) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See {Rhamnus}. [1913 Webster] {Sea buckthorn}, a plant of the genus {Hippopha[ e]}. [1913 Webster] …
10Cascara buckthorn — Cas ca*ra buck thorn (Bot.) The buckthorn ({Rhamnus Purshiana}) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields {cascara sagrada}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] || …
