buckthorn vs shittimwood

shittimwood vs buckthorn

buckthorn and shittimwood both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
buckthorn	Yes	No	No	No
shittimwood	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, shittimwood is a hyponym of buckthorn; that is, shittimwood is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than buckthorn:

buckthorn: any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia
shittimwood: shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

Other hyponyms of buckthorn include Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn.

buckthorn (noun)	shittimwood (noun)
any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia	wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle
a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments	deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions	shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

Difference between buckthorn and shittimwood

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