sumac
IPA: sˈumæk
noun
- Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria).
- Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes.
- A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.
verb
- (transitive) To apply a preparation of sumac to (an object), for example, to a piece of leather to tan it.
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Examples of "sumac" in Sentences
- Sumac is very easy to use and manage.
- Poison sumac grows in the sphagnum bog.
- The larvae feed on elm, hackberry and sumac.
- Poison oak and poison sumac both are shrubs.
- Dominate here are spicebush and poison sumac.
- I'm fairly sure there is no poison sumac there.
- First of all, there is no reason to italicize Sumac.
- Of these poisonous plants, sumac is the most virulent.
- Common additional ingredients include onion, parsley and sumac.
- The noble terebinth is a member of the pistachio and sumac family.