noun
oil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant
• Hypernyms: ↑oil
• Substance Holonyms: ↑sassafras, ↑sassafras tree, ↑Sassafras albidum
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noun : a yellow or reddish yellow aromatic essential oil obtained from the roots and stumps of American sassafras and used chiefly in flavoring and perfuming and as a disinfectant — compare ocotea cymbarum oil
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a yellowish or reddish-yellow, aromatic volatile oil distilled from sassafras root, used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine.
[1790-1800]
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sassafras oil noun
A volatile aromatic oil distilled from sassafras
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Main Entry: ↑sassafras
Useful english dictionary. 2012.