Noun: sassafras
| Singular | sassafras |
| Plural | sassafrases |
Sample Sentences
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our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of Bisket, which the sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, Saxefras, furres, or love. [1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 82:]
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[W]here the gullies are fringed with blackwoods, wattle, myrtles, musks and sassafras[.] [1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 58:]
Nouns inflected like sassafras
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish sasafrás, possibly from Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”) from the habit of certain plants growing in cracks in boulders. If this etymology is correct, it is a doublet of saxifrage. See: Spanish Nouns '
sasafrás', Latin Nouns '
saxifragus'.