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Noun: bristly sarsaparilla
  1. Bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
    "Native Americans traditionally used bristly sarsaparilla bark for healing";
    - bristly sarsparilla, dwarf elder, Aralia hispida

Derived forms: bristly sarsaparillas

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Aralia

Encyclopedia: Bristly sarsaparilla