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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 buck·thorn /-ˌθɔrn/
 鼠李

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 buck·thorn /ˈbəkˌθɔ(ə)rn/ 名詞
 鼠李(科),弗朗鼠李(皮),沙棘

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Buck·thorn n. Bot. A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
 Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 buckthorn
      n 1: 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 [syn: English plantain,
          narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass,
          Plantago lanceolata]