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Definition of Sassafras laurel
1. Noun. Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood.
Generic synonyms: Laurel
Group relationships: Genus Umbellularia, Umbellularia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sassafras Laurel
| sasine sasines sasins saskatchewan saskatoon saskatoons sasparilla sasparillas sasquatch sasquatches |
Literary usage of Sassafras laurel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"The ash retains a beautiful green and luxuriant foliage until late in fall.
THE LAUREL FAMILY. sassafras laurel, Sassafras officinale. — A small but FIG. ..."
2. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"sassafras laurel. SPEC. CHAR. Leaves ovate, entire; two or three lobed. ...
THE sassafras laurel is a native of North America, inhabiting every latitude ..."
3. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"Among them are species of oak, willow, beech, plane, poplar, maple, hickory, fig,
tulip-tree, sassafras, laurel, cinnamon, buckthorn, together with ferns, ..."
4. The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge (1853)
"The root of the sassafras laurel is the officinal part in the London tailor, was
born at Florence, ..."
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