buckthorn   (TTS Sound)

The noun buckthorn has 3 senses

• buckthorn -- (a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments)


• buckthorn -- (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)


• 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)