chittamwood

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: chit=tam=wood

CIDE DICTIONARY

chittamwood, n. 

•  a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.  [WordNet 1.5]