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Sassafras
Sassafras meaning
A tree of species Sassafras albidum of the eastern United States and Asia having mitten-shaped leaves and red, aromatic heartwood. | A tree of any species in the genus Sassafras. | The bark of the root of this plant, used for medicinal and (mostly historically) culinary purposes and formerly a main ingredient in root beer.
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Example sentences (14)
A mug of freshly poured root beer. Root beer is a tan sweet beverage traditionally made using the root beer tree Sassafras albidum (sassafras) or the vine Smilax ornata (sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor.
The event is one not to be missed with the outstanding performance to take place at the historic Dandenong Ranges’ garden at The Knowe in Sassafras.
The Probus Club of Lilydale Inc will celebrate 40 years on 2 June with a birthday celebration luncheon on the organisation’s Foundation Day, at Fortnums Restaurant in Sassafras.
Emergency services, including Ambulance Victoria, Monbulk CFA, Kallista-The Patch CFA, Sassafras-Ferny Creek CFA, and Victoria police attended the scene.
According to social media posts, the party was held at the Sassafras Saloon on Vine Street.
Melbourne editor John Bangsund on September 21, 1968 in Sassafras.
At times, she sounds other-worldly, sitting at her harp, singing to herself of sassafras and Sisyphus, but then a phrase will carry you off suddenly to the heart’s depths – “Still, my dear, I’d have walked you to the edge of the water”.
Sassafras Primary School students are helping to feed the hungry.
Darcy Martin carried her blue yoga mat rolled up in one arm and a cup of wine in the other hand, following a procession of women into an open patch of green grass at Sassafras Springs Winery.
Practically every view is accented with maples, sassafras, and cedars.
Hires developed his root tea made from sassafras in 1875, debuted a commercial version of root beer at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, and began selling his extract.
Modern, commercially produced root beer is generally sweet, foamy, carbonated, and non-alcoholic, and is flavoured using sassafras.
The area around Port Rowan in Ontario has special trees which grow because of the "tempering effect of the lake", and species include tulip trees, flowering dogwood, sassafras and sour gum.
While sassafras is no longer used in commercially produced root beer and is sometimes substituted with artificial flavors, natural extracts with the safrole distilled and removed are available.