sassafras tree


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Noun1.sassafras tree - yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and barksassafras tree - yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America
sassafras, Sassafras albidum
sassafras - dried root bark of the sassafras tree
laurel - any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
genus Sassafras - a genus of sassafras
sassafras oil - oil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant
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The host plants for this butterfly include the spicebush, from which it gets its common name, and the sassafras tree.
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Its main ingredient is Piperonyl methyl ketone (PMK), better known as a synthesised derivative of the sassafras tree whose bark is used to make aromatherapy oils.
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Sassafras is the dried bark of the sassafras tree, Sassafras albidum, which is native to North America.
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If I could find a sassafras tree, I knew I could relieve my thirst by chewing its leaves.
The singular sassafras
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Lovers of history must stop by the City Cemetery on Huntington Street to see the 66-foot-tall sassafras tree growing there, 18 feet in circumference.
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Skyline Drive has been named one of the top 10 scenic mountain drives in the United States; the drive will introduce you to the rich yellow and orange hickories, deep purple dogwoods, bright red Virginia creeper vines, buttery yellow scarlet oak, red maples, sumac, locust and sassafras trees that melt into each other as though it's a mere painting.
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For several years the bees have made their home inside a hive on one of the sassafras trees adjacent from the Learning Resource Center.
Dyersburg State Community College (Tenn.) nursing student Christy Kimbro of Yorkville volunteered to assist local beekeeper Kevin Klutts of Newbern (kneeling) as he safely removed a swarm of honey bees from an iron sculpture on at the Dyersburg campus

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