WordNet
sassafras tree
n. yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America [syn: sassafras, Sassafras albidum]
Usage examples of "sassafras tree".
It was originally made (artificial flavors have taken over now, of course) from a blend of birch oil and sassafras, the dried root bark of the sassafras tree.
At times he stooped to examine the tender shoots growing at the foot of a sassafras tree.
She decided to get a book and go sit down with it under the shady sassafras tree in the middle of the yard.