Definitions for Sumac

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Sumac su·mac

Spelling: [soo-mak, shoo-]

IPA: /ˈsu mæk, ˈʃu-/

Sumac is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Sumac (acmsu).

Definitions for Sumac

noun

1. any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
2. a preparation of the dried and powdered leaves, bark, etc., of certain species of Rhus, especially R. coriaria of southern Europe, used especially in tanning.
3. the wood of these trees.

Origin of Sumac

1250-1300; Middle English Medieval Latin Arabic summāq

Examples for Sumac

She sent a bevy of girls into the hills to gather branches of maple and sumac.

Written also sumac and sumach, both accented on the first syllable.

This soon leading him to the place where Halberger entered the sumac grove.

The sumac and buckeye you must not touch, until we learn what they will do to you.

Woollen goods are first dyed blue with indigo, and afterwards with sumac, logwood, and green or blue copperas.

These will form beautiful combinations with the sumac and ivy.

There is the sumac and the sassafras, which make a deep yellow.

It was the day we climbed the sumac Hill that we got our Idea!

sumac begins to bloom about the first of July and continues through the month.

It is not possible, neither is it necessary, to have all leathers tanned with sumac.