Word.ws English Dictionary

cascaras

cascaras is the plural of cascara.

Meaning of cascara

Noun

cascara (plural cascaras)

  1. A North American buckthorn (Frangula purshiana, syn. Rhamnus purshiana) whose bark is used as a laxative.
  2. A laxative drug or preparation based on this plant.
    • "That's as bitter as a dose of cascara."1972, John O'Grady, It's Your Shout, Mate, Ure Smith, page 60
  3. Dried coffee cherry fruit used in teas and other drinks.

Questions about cascaras

What is cascaras the plural of?
Cascaras is the plural of cascara.

Words near cascaras in the dictionary

  1. cascandite
  2. Cascar
  3. cascara
  4. cascara amarga
  5. cascara sagrada
  6. cascaras
  7. cascarilla
  8. cascarillas
  9. cascarillin
  10. cascaron
  11. cascarons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cascaras (page history and authors); cascara (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cascaras.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cascaras. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.