chittamwood

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The Rhus cotinoides, a rare tree of northern Alabama, with soft light wood of a rich orange color. It is used as material for fences, and yields a clear orange dye.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.
• noun a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
• noun a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.

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• noun deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
• noun shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
• noun shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke