Cascara

Definition: Cascara

Cascara

Noun

1. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.

Specialty Definitions: Cascara

Domain	Definitions
Health	Component of the dried bark of a buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana) that contains the anthraquinone emodin. It is used as a laxative. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Cascara

Synonyms: cascara sagrada (n), chittam bark (n), chittem bark (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cascara

English words defined with "cascara": bearberry, bearwood ♦ cascara buckthorn, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittamwood, chittem bark, chittimwood ♦ Holy bark ♦ Rhamnus purshianus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cascara" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (bowl, glass, scarves, shell, skin).

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Commercial Usage: Cascara

Domain	Title
Books	Cascara Sagrada (Woodland Health Series) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Cascara

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Panama	In September the Moscoso Administration ordered the arrest of Ubaldo Davis and Joel Diaz, two editors of the weekly tabloid La Cascara, for libel and for impugning the honor of various administration officials, including the President. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cascara

"Cascara" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cascara" is used about 3 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 (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Cascara

Expressions using "cascara": Cascara buckthorn ♦ Cascara sagrada. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cascara

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
cascara sagrada	124
cascara	64
cascara la	16
cascara de tomate	7
cascara history	4
cascara sagrada bark	4
cascara la panama	3
cascara de piña	3
cascara de deshidratada limon	3
arroz cascara con de normas	3
arroz cascara de	2
cascara racing	2
cascara segrada	2
cascara de en mexico tomate	2
cascara de huevo	2
cascara bark	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cascara

Language		Translations for "cascara"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		cascara sagrada (cascara sagrada). (various references)

Dutch		cascara sagrada (cascara sagrada). (various references)

French		cascara sagrada (cascara sagrada). (various references)

German		Rhamnus purshiana (cascara sagrada). (various references)

Greek		είδοσ καθαρτικού. (various references)

Italian		cascara sagrada (cascara sagrada). (various references)

Pig Latin		ascaracay

Portuguese		cáscara-sagrada (cascara sagrada). (various references)

Spanish		cáscara sagrada (cascara sagrada). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cascara

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Rhamnus purshiana. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cascara

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cascara": cascaras. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cascara" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ascar, Askarov, Cacerta, calcar, Calcarea, carceral, Carchayra, casbar, cascada, cascare, cascata, Cascieri, cassar, Casscarino, casuar, Catarax, cercaria, cercariae, cesari, Kasarda, zanskari. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cascara

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-r-s"
	-2 letters: cacas, sacra.
	-3 letters: arcs, caca, cars, casa, scar.
	-4 letters: aas, arc, ars, car, ras, sac.
	-5 letters: aa, ar, as.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-r-s"
	+1 letter: baccaras, caracals, cascaras.
	+2 letters: baccarats, caracaras, carapaces, cataracts.
	+3 letters: ataractics, cascarilla, charabancs, saccharase.
	+4 letters: cascarillas, cataractous, crackajacks, saccharases.
	+5 letters: attractances, caprolactams, craniosacral, saccharoidal, tachycardias.
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