Definition of Genus sassafras

1. Noun. A genus of sassafras.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sassafras

genus Sarcocephalus
genus Sarcochilus
genus Sarcocystis
genus Sarcodes
genus Sarcophaga
genus Sarcophilus
genus Sarcoptes
genus Sarcorhamphus
genus Sarcostemma
genus Sarda
genus Sardina
genus Sardinia
genus Sardinops
genus Sarracenia
genus Satureia
genus Satureja
genus Saturnia
genus Sauromalus
genus Saurosuchus
genus Saururus
genus Saussurea
genus Saxe-gothea
genus Saxegothea
genus Saxicola
genus Saxifraga
genus Sayornis
genus Scabiosa
genus Scaphiopus

Literary usage of Genus sassafras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories by Leo Lesquereux (1874)
"An objection, however, has been made by Count Saporta against the admitted relation of most of these leaves to the genus Sassafras, especially on account of ..."

2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus SASSAFRAS, Nees. (S. Sassafras) SASSAFRAS The laurel family has forty genera, most of them tropical. Of the six North American genera, ..."

3. Rudiments of Latin: With Special Reference to the Nomenclature of the U.S by Julius William Sturmer (1908)
"A later botanist divided the genus Laurus into several genera, one of which he named the genus Sassafras. To this genus was relegated the sassafras tree, ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"It is not only the single living representative of the genus Sassafras, but it belongs to the Lauraceae, a family with many arboreal genera in tropical and ..."

5. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"The species described on this page is the sole representative In North America of the genus Sassafras, but another species Is recorded from China. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The genus Sassafras.*3 monotypic and confined to North America in the existing flora, belongs to a large tribe—the ..."

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