Definitions for sumacs

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sumacs su·mac

Spelling: [soo-mak, shoo-]

IPA: /ˈsu mæk, ˈʃu-/

Sumacs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in sumacs (acmssu).

Definitions for sumacs

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 sumacs

1250-1300; Middle English Medieval Latin Arabic summāq

Examples for sumacs

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

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

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

These will form beautiful combinations with the sumac and ivy.

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

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

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

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

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

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