sassafras
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsasəfɹas/
sassafras
- (countable) A tree of species Sassafras albidum of the eastern United States and Asia having mitten-shaped leaves and red, aromatic heartwood.
- (countable) A tree of any species in the genus Sassafras.
- (uncountable) The bark of the root of this plant, used for medicinal and (mostly historically) culinary purposes and formerly a main ingredient in root beer.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 82:
- our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of Bisket, which the sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, Saxefras, furres, or love.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 82:
- German: Sassafras, Sassafrasbaum, Fenchelholzbaum, Nelkenzimtbaum
- Spanish: sasafrás
- German: Sassafrasrinde
- Spanish: sasafrás
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