Sassafras

See also: sassafras

Translingual
Sassafras albidum

Wikispecies

Etymology

New Latin, from Spanish sasafrás, possibly from Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”) from the habit of certain not closely related plants (Saxifraga spp.) growing in cracks in boulders.

Proper noun

Sassafras n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lauraceae – the sassafras tree.
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