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Sumac [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SUMAC

Sumac [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

shu'mak. A plant or shrub of the genus Rhus, of many species, some of which are used in tanning and dyeing, and in medicine.

Sumac [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Sumach

Sumach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.

2. The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing.

Sumach Encyclopedia Britannica

SUMACH. See Leather, vol. xiv. p. 382.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 637
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