DFDa sweet drink without alcohol, made from the root of the sassafras plant 菝葜汽水
Examples from the Corpus
sarsaparilla• I sat down at the counter and asked for the blue-plate special and a bottle of sarsaparilla.• The gloomy cluttered shop always smelt of black spanish and hot blackcurrant juice and strong bitter-sweet sarsaparilla.
Originsarsaparilla
(1500-1600)Spanishzarzaparrilla, from zarza“bush” + parrilla“small vine”