Meaning & use
sassafras
A North American tree with aromatic bark and roots once used to flavor root beer and teas.
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The recipe called for sassafras root to give the old-fashioned tea its distinctive flavor.
Early settlers boiled sassafras bark to make a fragrant, reddish drink.
A note on using this word
Sassafras oil was once a common flavoring but is now restricted in commercial food because one of its compounds, safrole, is considered unsafe in large amounts.
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