Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A form of sassafras.

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  • noun obsolete sassafras

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Examples

  • "furrs, skyns, saxafras, and other commodities," the project of a settlement was abandoned and he returned to England, leaving, however, two permanent memorials of his voyage, in the names which he gave respectively to Martha's Vineyard and to the headland of Cape Cod.

    Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601

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