buckthorn

Meaning

1. Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially
2. Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially
3. Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially
4. Any of several, often thorny shrubs or small trees, especially

Synonyms

ripple-grass

ribwort

ribgrass

English plantain

narrow-leaved plantain

Plantago lanceolata

coffee berry

genus Bumelia

Rhamnaceae

Translations

nerprun

Rhamnus

spincervino

topalak

Kreuzdorn

cehri

Purgier-Kreuzdorn

plantago lanceolata

nerprun purgatif

Plantago lanceolata

lingua di cane

piantaggine minore

frangula

Frangula

Etymology

Calque of Latin cervī spīna (“deer's thorny shrub”), cervi (“deer's”) being the genitive singular of cervus (“deer”), from Proto-Italic *kerwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) + *-wós, spīna (“thorny shrub”) from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”). By surface analysis, buck + thorn.