poison sumach

British  

noun

1. Also called: poison dogwood.   poison elder.  an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron ) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin See also sumach

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Example Sentences

The poison sumach is a small tree with slender drooping branches, smooth, reddish brown, dotted on the twigs with orange-colored breathing holes, becoming orange-brown and gray as the bark thickens.

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By certain traits we may always know, with absolute certainty, a poison sumach when we find it.

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One of this family is poisonous and is known as poison sumach.

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Thou art the sink of all uncleanliness, A drain for slaughter-pens, a wilderness Of trenches, pockets, quagmires, bogs where rank The poison sumach grows, and in the tank The water standeth ever black and deep Greened o'er with scum: foul pottages, that steep And brew in that dark broth, at night distil Malarious fogs bringing the fever chill.

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There was the dark fine bright red of some pepperidges shewing behind the green of an unchanged maple; near by stood another maple the leaves of which were all seemingly withered, a plain reddish light wood-colour; while below its withered foliage a thrifty poison sumach wreathing round its trunk and lower branches, was in a beautiful confusion of fresh green and the orange and red changes, yet but just begun.

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