ETYM French sassafras (cf. Italian sassafrasso, sassafras, Spanish sasafras, salsafras, salsifrax, salsifragia, saxifragia), from Latin saxifraga saxifrage. Related to Saxifrage.
Kind of laurel and its root-bark, used medicinally.
1. Dried root bark of the sassafras tree.
2. Yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America; SYN. sassafras tree, Sassafras albidum. + prikaži više