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sumac
or su·mach
[ soo-mak, shoo- ]
noun
- any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- a preparation of the dried and powdered leaves, bark, etc., of certain species of Rhus, especially R. coriaria of southern Europe, used especially in tanning.
- the wood of these trees.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sumac1
1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin < Arabic summāq
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Example Sentences
The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
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Mary rose from the stone by this roadway, where she had been sitting beneath a solitary sumac.
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From the smooth sumac they reap a harvest in midsummer, and in March they get a good grist of pollen from the skunk-cabbage.
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All the colors of autumn were at their height, and gorgeous plots of maple thicket and sumac burned against the brown and green.
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Also spelt Sumac and Shumac, and always pronounced like the latter.
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