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Definition of Sassafras tree
1. Noun. Yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America.
Terms within: Sassafras
Generic synonyms: Laurel
Group relationships: Genus Sassafras
Terms within: Sassafras Oil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sassafras Tree
| sasins saskatchewan saskatoon saskatoons sasparilla sasparillas sasquatch sasquatches |
Literary usage of Sassafras tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"166 : " The beautiful Tasmanian sassafras-tree is also a dweller in some parts
of our fern-tree valleys. . . . The flowers are white and fragrant, ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"166 : "The beautiful Tasmanian sassafras-tree is also a dweller in some parts of
our fern-tree valleys. . . . The flowers are white and fragrant, ..."
3. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The wood of the sassafras tree, orange colored, with a thin, pale sapwood, is
coarse grained and has no value for use except as fence rails or posts, ..."
4. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The wood of the sassafras tree, orange colored, with a thin, pale sapwood, is
coarse grained and has no value for use except as fence rails or posts, ..."
5. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The wood of the sassafras tree, orange colored, with a thin, pale sapwood, is
coarse grained and has no value for use except as fence rails or posts, ..."
6. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"The sassafras tree often grows, even in England, to the height of 40ft. or 50ft.
(See plate of the tree at Syon, in our last Volume. ..."
7. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"The sassafras tree often grows, even in England, to the height of 40 ft. or 50ft.
(See plate of the tree at Syon, in our last Volume. ..."
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