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According to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition, sassafras is an eastern N. American tree of the laurel family having both ovate and lobed aromatic leaves. Sassafras is also the carcinogenic dried root bark of the sassafras used formerly as a diaphoretic or flavoring agent.

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