- a variation of sumac.
sumach
Britishnoun
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any temperate or subtropical shrub or small tree of the anacardiaceous genus Rhus, having compound leaves, clusters of green flowers, and red hairy fruits See also poison sumach
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a preparation of powdered leaves of certain species of Rhus, esp R. coriaria, used in dyeing and tanning
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the wood of any of these plants
Etymology
Origin of sumach
C14: via Old French from Arabic summāq
Example Sentences
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The brilliant sunshine made every smallest detail clear and sharp—boulders of granite, burned stems, crimson sumach, pebbles along the shore in neat, separate detail—without revealing where the watcher hid.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Algernon Blackwood
We should suspect any sumach that stands with its feet in the water, whether it bears flowers and fruit or not.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
The road by which we travelled was often bounded by hedges, or by walls of blocks of granite, or other kinds of stone, on which plantain, elder, stagshorn, sumach, &c., were growing.
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
Its leaves are the most beautiful in the sumach family.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
Flaming patches of sumach adorn the edges of the rocky spots that occasionally occurred in the picture.
From The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin by Elliott Smith
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