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Definition: Buckthorn |
BuckthornNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "buckthorn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Synonyms: BuckthornSynonyms: narrow-leaved plantain (n), ribgrass (n), ribwort (n), ripple-grass (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Buckthorn |
| English words defined with "buckthorn": Black alder ♦ cascara, cascara sagrada, Chinese date, Chinese jujube, chittam bark, chittem bark ♦ Emodin ♦ Frangulin, Frangulinic ♦ jujube ♦ Persian berry ♦ Rhamnaceous, Rheinberry ♦ Sap green ♦ Wild Irishman ♦ Yerba dol osa. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "buckthorn": Atad. (references) |
| "Buckthorn" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Buckthorn" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 88.24% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "buckthorn": alder buckthorn ♦ buckthorn berry ♦ buckthorn family ♦ California buckthorn ♦ Carolina buckthorn ♦ Cascara buckthorn ♦ false buckthorn ♦ sea buckthorn ♦ southern buckthorn. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
buckthorn | 53 |
sea buckthorn | 22 |
buckthorn columnar | 10 |
buckthorn fernleaf | 9 |
buckthorn tree | 8 |
sea buckthorn oil | 6 |
buckthorn bark | 4 |
buckthorn removal | 3 |
buckthorn common | 3 |
buckthorn russia sea | 2 |
buckthorn bush | 2 |
buckthorn carolina | 2 |
buckthorn shrub | 2 |
buckthorn tallhedge | 2 |
sea buckthorn berry | 2 |
buckthorn italian | 2 |
buckthorn glossy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "buckthorn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | النبق المسهل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Зърнастец. (various references) | |
Czech | Strom (candleberry, cinchona, dogwood, dragon-tree, durmast, guelder rose, hydrangea, judas-tree, live-oak, loblolly-bay, locust tree, quebracho, sassafras, seringa, service tree, Shea, single-tree, sumac, tree, umbrella tree, upas). (various references) | |
Danish | bær af slåen (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), vrietornfamilien (buckthorn family), vrietorn (common buckthorn, Persian berry, purging buckthorn), toerst (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn, thirst), sandtidsel (sea buckthorn), persiske bær (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), nasturtiebladlus (buckthorn aphid, buckthorn-potato aphid), korsved (common buckthorn, purging buckthorn), klittorn (sea buckthorn), havtorn (sea buckthorn), gulbær (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries). (various references) | |
Dutch | wegedoren (purging buckthorn), wegedoornfamilie (buckthorn family), wegedoornachtigen (buckthorn family), wegedoorn (common buckthorn, purging buckthorn), vuilboomluis (buckthorn aphid, buckthorn-potato aphid), rhamnaceeen (buckthorn family), gewone vuilboom (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn), geelbessen (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), duindoorn (sea buckthorn), avignonbessen (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyrni (sea buckthorn), orapaatsamakirva (buckthorn aphid, buckthorn-potato aphid), orapaatsama (common buckthorn, purging buckthorn), korpipaatsama (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn). (various references) | |
French | Nerprun (purging buckthorn). (various references) | |
German | Sanddorn (sallow thorn, sea buckthorn). (various references) | |
Greek | κίτρινα σπέρματα (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), ράγες ράμνου (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), ράμνος η καθαρκτική (common buckthorn, purging buckthorn), ραμνίδες (buckthorn family), σπέρματα Αδριανούπολης (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), σπέρματα ερσίας (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), σπυράκι (common buckthorn, purging buckthorn), ιπποφαές το ραμνοειδές (sea buckthorn), λευκαγκαθιά (common buckthorn, purging buckthorn), αφίδα του ράμνου (buckthorn aphid, buckthorn-potato aphid). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ְשחר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Varjútövis. (various references) | |
Italian | bacche o coccole di spino cervino o di rammo (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), spino merlo (sea buckthorn), spincervino (common buckthorn, purging buckthorn), ramnacee (buckthorn family), grani gialli (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), grani di Persia (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), grani di Adrianopoli o di Turchia (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), frangola (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn), alno nero (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn), afide della spina cervina (buckthorn aphid, buckthorn-potato aphid). (various references) | |
Manx | drine bugogue. (various references) | |
Papago | cheolim (buckthorn cholla cactus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckthornbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bagas de escambroeiro (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), sanguinho-da-água (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn), ramnáceas (buckthorn family), amieiro preto (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn, frangula). (various references) | |
Romanian | Paţachinã. (various references) | |
Russian | Крушина, крушина. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pasjakovina. (various references) | |
Spanish | Espino Cerval. (various references) | |
Swedish | Brakved (alder buckthorn, breaking-buckthorn). (various references) | |
Turkish | Topalak, Cehri, Akdiken (Cockspur, haw, hawthorn, may, quickset, whitethorn). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Крушина. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Aphidula nasturtii, Aphis nasturtii, Hippophae rhamnoides, Rhammus catharticus, Rhamnaceae, Rhamnus cathartica, Rhamnus frangula. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "buckthorn": buckthorns. (additional references) | |
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"Buckthorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bakhtir, bikethon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "buckthorn" (pronounced bu"kthô'rn) |
| 4 | -th ô' r n | hawthorn. |
| 3 | -ô' r n | firstborn, airborne, bighorn, bullhorn, Hartshorn, inborn, Longhorn, popcorn, pronghorn, seaborne, shoehorn, shopworn, unicorn, waterborne. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-h-k-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: cothurn. | |
-3 letters: bohunk, brunch, burton, cobnut, uncork. | |
-4 letters: botch, bourn, brock, bronc, broth, brunt, bucko, bunch, bunco, bunko, burnt, butch, chunk, churn, cornu, count, court, couth, knout, korun, north, notch, rotch, routh, thorn, throb, thunk, torch, touch, trock, truck, trunk, turbo. | |
-5 letters: bhut, bock, bonk, born, bort, both, bout, brut, buck, buhr, bunk, bunt. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-h-k-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: buckthorns. | |
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