Buckthorn is valid Scrabble Word

Is buckthorn a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
23 points in WWF

Definitions for BUCKTHORN in dictionary:

NOUN:

a shrub of the Rhamnus genus
a shrub or small tree which typically bears thorns and black berries. Some kinds yield dyes and others have been used medicinally.
thorny shrub whose berries were formerly used as a purgative
A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments
any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia
an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

any of a genus (Rhamnus of the family Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family) of often thorny trees or shrubs some of which yield purgatives or pigments

Words related to BUCKTHORN

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Words that contain BUCKTHORN

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How to use BUCKTHORN in a sentence

Though generally considered as a sea-side shrub, the Sea Buckthorn is by no means exclusively so, thriving well, and attaining to large dimensions, in many inland situations.
At times, he forced his way through and over bushes of buckthorn and manzanita that seemed, with their sharp thorns and tangled branches, to be stubbornly fighting him back.
Buckthorn berries, bruised on white paper, stain it of a green colour, which the others do not.
He jumped boulders, shied around buckthorn, crashed through sagebrush and so brought the girl to bay against a wet bank, where she stood shivering.
The common Buckthorn grows in our woods and thickets, and used to be popularly known because of the purgative syrup made from its juice and berries.
This black Buckthorn is a slender shrub, which occurs in our woods and thickets.
But the reed, like the buckthorn, is a sort of Jack-of-all-trades.

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