SARSAPARILLA
\sˌɑːsɐpɐɹˈɪlə], \sˌɑːsɐpɐɹˈɪlə], \s_ˌɑː_s_ɐ_p_ɐ_ɹ_ˈɪ_l_ə]\
Definitions of SARSAPARILLA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.
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The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.
By Oddity Software
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Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.
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The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Alterative and tonic; also stimulating secretion of urine.
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of the U. S. Ph., the root of Smilax officinalis, Smilax medica, and other undetermined species of Smilax. The Br. Ph. 1898 recognized the root (dried) of Smilax officinalis. It contains several saponins. It is much vaunted by nostrum makers, but probably has no therapeutic value. The syrup may be used to mask the taste of potassium iodid [U. S. Ph.].
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).