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Definition of Southern buckthorn
1. Noun. Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Buckthorn
Literary usage of Southern buckthorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"NAMES IN USE.—Ironwood (Va., SC, Ga., Fla., Miss., Ky.); southern buckthorn (Miss.,
La., Tex., 111.); Carolina Buckthorn (NC); Buckthorn (SC); ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... producing cascara bark, and R. Caroliniana, the alder-buckthorn. Bumelia.
lycioides (or lanu- ginosa) is popularly called " southern buckthorn ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"southern buckthorn. (Fig. 2829.) Sideroxylon lycioides L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 279.
1762. Bumelia lycioides Pers. Syn. i: 237. 1805. A shrub or small tree with ..."
4. The Woods of the United States by Charles Sprague Sargent, American Museum of Natural History (1885)
"southern buckthorn. Coast of Virginia and southern Illinois, south to Mosquito
Inlet and the Caloosa River, Florida, and through southern Missouri, ..."
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