sassafras
See also: Sassafras
English
Etymology
From Spanish sasafrás, possibly from Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”) from the habit of certain plants growing in cracks in boulders. If this etymology is correct, it is a doublet of saxifrage.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːs
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsasəfɹas/
Noun
sassafras (countable and uncountable, plural sassafrases)
- (countable) A tree of species Sassafras albidum of the eastern United States and Asia having mitten-shaped leaves and red, aromatic heartwood.
- Synonyms: red sassafras, silky sassafras, white sassafras
- (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.
- Synonym: cinnamonwood
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 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.
Derived terms
- Australian sassafras (Doryphora sassafras etc.)
- black sassafras (Cinnamomum oliveri)
- blackheart sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum)
- Brazilian sassafras (Ocotea odorifera)
- Chilean sassafras (Laurelia sempervirens)
- Chinese sassafras (Sassafras tzumu)
- grey sassafras (Daphnandra repandula)
- New Zealand sassafras (Laurelia novae-zelandiae)
- northern sassafras (Daphnandra repandula)
- Oliver's sassafras (Cinnamomum oliveri)
- red sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
- sassafras nut (Nectandra pichurim; Ocotea odorifera)
- scentless sassafras (Daphnandra repandula)
- silky sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
- southern sassafras (Atherospermataceae spp.)
- swamp sassafras (Magnolia abovata, syn. Magnolia glauca)
- white sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
- yellow sassafras (Daphnandra repandula)
- socket sassafras (Daphnandra tenuipes)
Translations
Sassafras albidum
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tree of the species Sassafras
See also
- (botanical ingredients of root beer): sarsaparilla
References
sassafras on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Sassafras on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Sassafras on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Finnish
Etymology
From translingual Sassafras.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑsːɑfrɑs/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝s̠ːɑ̝frɑ̝s̠]
- Rhymes: -ɑsːɑfrɑs
- Syllabification(key): sas‧saf‧ras
Declension
| Inflection of sassafras (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sassafras | sassafrasit | ||
| genitive | sassafrasin | sassafrasien | ||
| partitive | sassafrasia | sassafraseja | ||
| illative | sassafrasiin | sassafraseihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | sassafras | sassafrasit | ||
| accusative | nom. | sassafras | sassafrasit | |
| gen. | sassafrasin | |||
| genitive | sassafrasin | sassafrasien | ||
| partitive | sassafrasia | sassafraseja | ||
| inessive | sassafrasissa | sassafraseissa | ||
| elative | sassafrasista | sassafraseista | ||
| illative | sassafrasiin | sassafraseihin | ||
| adessive | sassafrasilla | sassafraseilla | ||
| ablative | sassafrasilta | sassafraseilta | ||
| allative | sassafrasille | sassafraseille | ||
| essive | sassafrasina | sassafraseina | ||
| translative | sassafrasiksi | sassafraseiksi | ||
| abessive | sassafrasitta | sassafraseitta | ||
| instructive | — | sassafrasein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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