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Sumac
SUMAC
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sumac
sumac
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Noun
sumac (usually uncountable, plural sumacs)
- Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- There was a Steinway grand piano […] a cherrywood writing table, and an assortment of floor lamps, table lamps, and "bridge" lamps that sprang up all over the congested inscape like sumac.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria).
Derived terms
terms derived from sumac
Translations
shrub or small tree
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sour spice
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
sumac m (oblique plural sumas, nominative singular sumas, nominative plural sumac)
- sumac
- 1303, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 131-132 of this essay:
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et couvrir par quelconque cause que soit ou par sumac, ou par galles, ou par galbanum, ou par baing d’eaue froide, ou de vive, ou semblables.
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et couvrir par quelconque cause que soit ou par sumac, ou par galles, ou par galbanum, ou par baing d’eaue froide, ou de vive, ou semblables.
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