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sarsaparilla

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sarsaparilla has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sarsaparillan. [Sp. zarzaparrilla; zarza a bramble (perhaps fr. Bisc. zartzia) + parra a vine, or Parillo, a physician said to have discovered it.].
     Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.  [1913 Webster]
    " The name is also applied to many other plants and their roots, especially to the Aralia nudicaulis, the wild sarsaparilla of the United States."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sarsaparilla, n.
1 a preparation of the dried roots of various plants, esp. smilax, used to flavour some drinks and medicines and formerly as a tonic.
2 any of the plants yielding this.

Etymology
Sp. zarzaparilla f. zarza bramble, prob. + dimin. of parra vine
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