Cascara, bearberry, chittam, Rhamnus purshiana. paˀaníx̣ana šɨlɨmmí psá tawc̓xtpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘they used to make a diarrhea medicine from chittam bark’; šɨlɨmmí psá ‘cascara bark’. [WS át̓itaaš; NP /slm/; perhaps related sound symbolically to šnɨ́m (NP /ssnm/) ‘hawthorn’.]
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