cascara

From Spanish cáscara (“bark" or "husk”)

cascara (plural cascaras)

1. A North American buckthorn (Frangula purshiana, syn. Rhamnus purshiana) whose bark is used as a laxative.
2. Dried coffee cherry fruit used in teas and other drinks.

• cascara amarga
• cascara sagrada

• Carpenter, Murray, Cascara 'Tea': A Tasty Infusion Made From Coffee Waste, US, NPR The Salt, December 1, 2015
• Judkis, Maura, Cascara — a soda made from coffee cherries — could be this summer’s ‘it’ drink, Washington DC, Washington Post, May 10, 2017
• Hardle, Anne-Marie, Now is the Time for Cascara, Bangkok Thailand, SIIR Vol 6 No 5, 2017

• Caracas

cascara

1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect subjunctive form of cascar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect subjunctive form of cascar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) imperfect subjunctive form of cascar.