wild sarsparilla

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   common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America

   Synonymswild sarsaparillafalse sarsaparillaAralia nudicaulis

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofgenus Aralia

Questions about wild sarsparilla

What does wild sarsparilla mean?

wild sarsparilla means "common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America".

What is another word for wild sarsparilla?

Close synonyms include wild sarsaparilla, false sarsaparilla, Aralia nudicaulis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wild sarsparilla a common word?

wild sarsparilla is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.