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sarsaparilla
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sar·sa·pa·ril·la
/ ˌsärs(ə)pəˈrilə; ˌsaspə-/
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n.
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a preparation of the dried rhizomes of various plants, esp. smilax, used to flavor some drinks and medicines and formerly as a tonic.
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a sweet drink flavored with this.
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the tropical American climbing plant (genus Smilax) of the lily family from which these rhizomes are generally obtained, esp. S. regelii, which is the chief source of commercial sarsaparilla.
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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remember how sarsaparilla used to taste?(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 6/25/2005; 441 words
; ...of the company's famous crocks of sarsaparilla. Recently, Mawson's won the public...a national competition for the best sarsaparilla in the UK. Managing director Nigel...currently on the market." Mawson's sarsaparilla is sold in either eye-catching retro...
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That sarsaparilla gang.(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 8/27/2001; 349 words
; ...to be brought into a tavern to sip sarsaparilla or any other unidentified beverage...beverage in his joint that isn't sarsaparilla, and on top of that none of them has any sarsaparilla, which hasn't been seen since the...
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Sarsaparilla calendar too dated to have much fizz in value
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/23/2003; ; 681 words
; Q. Could my "Hood's Sarsaparilla" calendar actually have been printed in 1894? A. Indeed it was! Once a popular carbonated drink flavored with sassafras, sarsaparilla was considered a medicinal beverage. Hood's Medicine of Lowell...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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Local maker of organic soda adds sarsaparilla flavor
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 9/16/2004; 254 words
; ...Maine) 09-16-2004 Local maker of organic soda adds sarsaparilla flavor Edition: Final Section: Your Neighbors-South Column...beer, the Scarborough-based company is now producing a sarsaparilla soda. Unlike many popular sodas containing high- fructose...
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Wild Sarsaparilla
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review; 1/1/2004; ; 408 words
; ...arborvitae cover if we walk here next year and the next, we'll learn they're not beginning trees but the understory. Wild sarsaparilla, ginseng family, we could find in a book if we looked close enough, and this is the knowledge of things that allows the...
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[ * Original root beer got its flavor from sassafras root. However, sassafras was banned as a cancer risk by the FDA. Today 's versions mix sarsaparilla and wintergreen roots with vanilla, and sometimes a splash of anise to add a licorice kick.... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 8/11/2006; 459 words
; ...got its flavor from sassafras root. However, sassafras was banned as a cancer risk by the FDA. Today 's versions mix sarsaparilla and wintergreen roots with vanilla, and sometimes a splash of anise to add a licorice kick. * If you're going out wearing...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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At the county fair, you have to try the food Fair: Turkey legs, meatballs, cod, corn, cream puffs, sarsaparilla ...(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 7/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...Friday and Saturday. Down in the lower food court, Hillbilly Home Brew sells homemade soft drinks, including root beer, sarsaparilla, ginger beer, birch beer and Mountain Lightning, which owner Donna Conner of Florida describes as "like Mountain Dew...
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Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla: the politics of conformity in White and Cheever.(Patrick White's The Night the Prowler and John Cheever's The Housebreaker of Shady Hill)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Patrick White and the American writer John Cheever have a number of things in common: both are satirical modernist writers; both struggled with forms of depression, surreptitiously linked in their fiction to the suburbs of their respective nations; both lived in, criticised, and celebrated
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Two plays, two directors: Rock 'n' Roll and The Season at Sarsaparilla.(Tom Stoppard)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; AT MELBOURNE'S Arts Centre Playhouse the e was a moment of awed silence at the beginning of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n Roll when Matthew Newton stepped onto the stage. And then chitter-chatter cartwheeled through the auditorium as the deaf explained to the deaf the delicate matter of his parentage. And
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detoxify with herbs
Magazine article from: Better Nutrition; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Sarsaparille Root: Detox Your Skin. Sarsaparilla, the herb that gives root beer its...blood purifier. Several compounds in sarsaparilla (called saponins) have been researched...percent. Another study found that sarsaparilla saponins showed anti- inflammatory...
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sarsaparilla
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sarsaparilla , common name for various plants belonging...in medicine and in beverages. True sarsaparilla is obtained from various tropical American...Other plants used as substitutes for sarsaparilla include the wild sarsaparilla ( Aralia...
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ginseng
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...paper. Native American species of this family include the wild sarsaparilla ( Aralia nudicaulis ) and the American, or wild, spikenard ( A. racemosa ). The names sarsaparilla and spikenard are applied also to plants of other families. Ginseng...
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Caldwell, Zoe 1933–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Australia, 1962. Ham Funeral, Elizabethan Theatre Trust, 1962. Nola Boyle, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Union Theatre Repertory Company, Union Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, 1962. Frosine, The Miser, Minnesota Theatre...
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Ester
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...phenyl group in its molecular structure and will produce methanol when heated with water. Methyl salicylate, or “sarsaparilla” flavor is also the major ingredient in “birch beer” or root beer. It also gives a wintergreen...
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Patrick Victor Martindale White
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...whom he tells of the alienated, tortured consciousness. Similar distorted personalities are seen in the play The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962) and in the short-story collection The Burnt Ones (1964). In showing the rejection of the "illuminates" by...
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