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An American tree of the Laurel family (Sassafras officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.

An American tree of the Laurel family (officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.

A plant genus in the LAURACEAE family. The tree bark has been used medicinally.

A tree of the laurel family, whose root, wood, and flowers have a spicy smell and a pungent taste.

The root-bark of Sassafras variifolius, a tree of the eastern United States; aromatic stimulant and astringent, employed as a flavoring addition to pharmaceutical preparations and as a diuretic and diaphoretic; dose, indefinite.

Aromatic diaphoretic and tonic.

A kind of laurel, the wood of which has a pungent taste, and is much used in medicine, so called because formerly used to break or dissolve stone in the bladder.

Kind of laurel with aromatic bark.

A tree of the laurel family; also, the bark of the roots, an aromatic stimulant.

A laurel tree or shrub, one species of which has several medicinal virtues. See Saxifrage.

The root of a tree of like name, of the laurel family, having a fragrant odour and a sweetish aromatic taste.

Laurus sassafras, Nectandra cymbarum-s. Medulla, see Laurus sassafras-s. Nut, see Pichurim beans-s. Radicis cortex, see Lanrus sassafras.

A genus of plants of the Laurinae.

Of the U. S. Ph., the root bark of S. variifoli.

n. [Latin] A tree of the laurel family whose bark has an aromatic smell and taste.