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rhus

British

/ rʊs /

noun

any shrub or small tree of the anacardiaceous genus Rhus , several species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their foliage, which assumes brilliant colours in autumn See also sumach

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A neglected but really remarkable shrub is the rhus cotinus—the smoke plant.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle

Dann. add here which is wanting in Tor. rhus Syriacum—Syrian Sumach.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling

Now famous for two things, picnics and poison ivy, rhus toxicodendron,—many persons having suffered for their temerity in landing upon it and making it the scene of their rural festivities.

From Canadian Crusoes by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

But it can't be anything as bad as the real rhus tox.

From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Alan Douglas

Five or six species of oak, several kinds of walnut trees, beeches, chestnuts, and dogwood, formed the thick wood, the undergrowth of which consisted of Rhododendron maximum, kalmia, rhus, and tall juniper.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

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