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单词 sassafras
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Definition of sassafras in English:

sassafras

noun ˈsasəfrasˈsæs(ə)ˌfræs
  • 1A deciduous North American tree with aromatic leaves and bark. The leaves are infused to make tea or ground into filé.

    美国檫木

    Sassafras albidum, family Lauraceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Between 150 and 100 million years ago, the cycads were joined by figs, sassafras, oaks, and willows, as well as such evergreen plants as sequoias and palms.
    • These are old forests of white oak and water oak and red oak and every kind of pine and dogwood and redbud and maple and sycamore and sassafras all of them making such a show of color in the fall that it takes your breath away.
    • Some also find natural gardening methods to be very effective, such as using mosquito-repelling plants like sassafras, sweet basil, eucalyptus and geraniums, particularly the citrosa variety.
    • There was something lonely about the figure of the old man wandering along the fencerow filled with sassafras and elderberry.
    • Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
    • The woods near our home were thick with walnut, white oak, sweet birch, sassafras, hemlock, red maple, juniper, tulip trees, and many more species I couldn't name.
    • Rich hardwoods of myrtle, blackwood, sassafras and Huon pine mingle with common eucalypts.
    • His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
    • Missing from the listing are rapidly growing shrubby invasive or edge species such as sassafras, pawpaw, hawthorn, and mulberry.
    • Many plants contain traces of cancer-causing chemicals, like safrole, which is abundant in the roots of sassafras.
    • In many other trees such as black gum, sassafras, dogwood, and some maples and oaks, the pigment anthocyanin adds red to the palette.
    • And so, shaded by eucalyptus trees, amidst the sweet scents of sassafras and olearia, the people lay down to rest.
    • Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash.
    • The dogwood, oak, chestnut, pine, red maple, black locust, sassafras, hickory, willow, cottonwood, and redbud dotted the landscape.
    • So it starts off through a fantastic grove of sassafras and tree ferns and descends down through the forest with the trees growing bigger and bigger as you descend into the valley floor, where the Blue Tier Giant stands above the Groom River.
    • The mitten-shaped foliage you sent appears to be that of a sassafras, a small to medium tree with fruit that turns deep blue and is carried on a bright red stalk.
    • Other trees are blackjack oak, post oak, and sassafras.
    • Other trees such as pine, spruce, maple, sassafras, and birch made up the rest of the forest.
    • It was all washed down with a delicious tea made from the leaves of the sassafras, whose benefits were once known only to the Aborigines.
    1. 1.1mass noun An extract of the leaves or bark of the sassafras, used medicinally or in perfumery.
      檫木油(用作药材或香料)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Wormood, pennyroyal, onion, camphor, horseradish, wintergreen, rue, bitter almond and sassafras are some of the essential oils that should only be used by qualified aromatherapy practitioners, if ever at all.
      • Some traditional herbal products display known toxicities (e.g., calamus, comfrey, and sassafras all have been shown to have carcinogenic actions).

Origin

Late 16th century: from Spanish sasafrás, based on Latin saxifraga 'saxifrage'.

Definition of sassafras in US English:

sassafras

nounˈsæs(ə)ˌfræsˈsas(ə)ˌfras
  • 1A deciduous North American tree with aromatic leaves and bark. The leaves are infused to make tea or ground into filé.

    美国檫木

    Sassafras albidum, family Lauraceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The mitten-shaped foliage you sent appears to be that of a sassafras, a small to medium tree with fruit that turns deep blue and is carried on a bright red stalk.
    • There was something lonely about the figure of the old man wandering along the fencerow filled with sassafras and elderberry.
    • So it starts off through a fantastic grove of sassafras and tree ferns and descends down through the forest with the trees growing bigger and bigger as you descend into the valley floor, where the Blue Tier Giant stands above the Groom River.
    • Many plants contain traces of cancer-causing chemicals, like safrole, which is abundant in the roots of sassafras.
    • In many other trees such as black gum, sassafras, dogwood, and some maples and oaks, the pigment anthocyanin adds red to the palette.
    • Between 150 and 100 million years ago, the cycads were joined by figs, sassafras, oaks, and willows, as well as such evergreen plants as sequoias and palms.
    • It was all washed down with a delicious tea made from the leaves of the sassafras, whose benefits were once known only to the Aborigines.
    • The dogwood, oak, chestnut, pine, red maple, black locust, sassafras, hickory, willow, cottonwood, and redbud dotted the landscape.
    • The woods near our home were thick with walnut, white oak, sweet birch, sassafras, hemlock, red maple, juniper, tulip trees, and many more species I couldn't name.
    • Other trees such as pine, spruce, maple, sassafras, and birch made up the rest of the forest.
    • These are old forests of white oak and water oak and red oak and every kind of pine and dogwood and redbud and maple and sycamore and sassafras all of them making such a show of color in the fall that it takes your breath away.
    • And so, shaded by eucalyptus trees, amidst the sweet scents of sassafras and olearia, the people lay down to rest.
    • Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash.
    • Rich hardwoods of myrtle, blackwood, sassafras and Huon pine mingle with common eucalypts.
    • Missing from the listing are rapidly growing shrubby invasive or edge species such as sassafras, pawpaw, hawthorn, and mulberry.
    • Some also find natural gardening methods to be very effective, such as using mosquito-repelling plants like sassafras, sweet basil, eucalyptus and geraniums, particularly the citrosa variety.
    • Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
    • Other trees are blackjack oak, post oak, and sassafras.
    • His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
    1. 1.1 An extract of the leaves or bark of the sassafras, used medicinally or in perfumery.
      檫木油(用作药材或香料)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Wormood, pennyroyal, onion, camphor, horseradish, wintergreen, rue, bitter almond and sassafras are some of the essential oils that should only be used by qualified aromatherapy practitioners, if ever at all.
      • Some traditional herbal products display known toxicities (e.g., calamus, comfrey, and sassafras all have been shown to have carcinogenic actions).

Origin

Late 16th century: from Spanish sasafrás, based on Latin saxifraga ‘saxifrage’.

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