root beer
Noun
Meaning
carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs
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I'm a big root beer guy.
You cannot loosen a man's tongue with root beer.
A mug of freshly poured root beer. Root beer is a tan sweet beverage traditionally made using the root beer tree Sassafras albidum (sassafras) or the vine Smilax ornata (sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor.
Alternating sips with the hot chocolate, the stout tasted like coffee on some sips and root beer at other sips.
For example, safrole was used to flavor root beer until it was shown to be carcinogenic.
Modern, commercially produced root beer is generally sweet, foamy, carbonated, and non-alcoholic, and is flavoured using sassafras.