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Definition of Sarsaparillas
1. sarsaparilla [n] - See also: sarsaparilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarsaparillas
Literary usage of Sarsaparillas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Prince Edward Island by Francis Bain (1890)
"SMILACE^E. —sarsaparillas. 60. The Wake-Robins are plants of the woody shadows,
opening their conspicuous white, purple-veined flowers before the forest ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"He divides them into three groups : (i) Genuine sarsaparillas, bearing all the
macroscopic and microscopic characters of the genuine drug, but differing ..."
3. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley (1892)
"The sarsaparillas of commerce arc divided by Dr Pereira into two ... The mealy
sarsaparillas are distinguished by " the mealy character of the inner ..."
4. Handbook of Pharmacognosy by Otto Augustus Wall (1917)
"It is not improbable that all sarsaparillas would be mealy if gathered at the
... Non-mealy sarsaparillas, which include Mexican and Jamaica varieties, ..."
5. A Companion to the United States Pharmacopœia by Oscar Oldberg, Otto Augustus Wall (1884)
"and 2, non - mealy sarsaparillas, in which the parenchyma cells most frequently
... It is not improbable that all the sarsaparillas would be mealy if ..."
6. A manual of vegetable materia medica by George Sampson V. Wills (1878)
"The dried root of Smilax Officinalis ; called Jamaica Sarsaparilla. Characters.—The
sarsaparillas are classified into two divisions, mealy and non-mealy. ..."
7. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"On the data furnished by yield of extract, therefore, the present sample must be
taken as somewhat superior in quality to the other mealy sarsaparillas. ..."
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