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单词 sumac
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Definition of sumac in English:

sumac

(also sumach)
nounˈʃuːmakˈs(j)uːmak
  • 1A shrub or small tree with compound leaves, reddish hairy fruits in conical clusters, and bright autumn colours.

    Genera Rhus and Cotinus, family Anacardiaceae: several species, including the Mediterranean R. coriaria and the North American staghorn sumac (R. typhina), often grown as an ornamental

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In late summer, we cleared the 2-and 3-inch-diameter sumacs that had invaded the old garden.
    • Oak trees provide acorns, dogwoods and sumac provide red berries through the fall and winter and serviceberry bears edible berries in late spring or early summer.
    • If the vision is clouded, the result is not what we intend; the apple tree is a poison sumac.
    • In the northeastern foothills, on relatively dry slopes, bur oak dominates above an understory of hop hornbeam, smooth sumac, coralberry, and poison ivy.
    • In October, after the growing season, I had a female sumach tree cut down to ground level.
    • Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
    • Our biggest loss this year has been the sumach tree which grew outside the dining room window.
    • It only takes one case of poison ivy, oak or sumac to convince most people to stay away from these skin-irritating plants.
    • She left the road again and ran until she found another sheltered hollow in the trees and sumac, where she lay down and waited.
    • Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry (all members of the rose family), geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs.
    • Commonly encountered shrubs barberry and Oregon graperoot (both Berberis species), sumacs, rose, blackberry, raspberry, myrtle, alders and elders.
    • Irritated summer skin is usually caused by clogged sweat ducts, a condition called prickly heat or miliaria, or by exposure to poison ivy, oak or sumac.
    • And you can get even better protection by avoiding poison ivy all together, as well as its cousins poison sumac and poison oak.
    • We also have a staghorn sumac tree and pussy willows.
    • The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
    • If a child touches poison ivy, poison oak or a sumac plant, causing an itchy rash with pin-size clear blisters, give him a thorough bath to remove the oily resin that caused the reaction.
    • You will remember that we accidentally killed the original tree, a sumach, by suffocating the roots with a mixture of rotting logs and sunflower husks.
    • The answer lies in the tremendous diversity of deciduous trees: maples, oaks, sumacs and beech each impart their own range of colours to the overall palette.
    • Taking the trails at a healthy pace, I rounded the corner on a crop of autumn red sumac when two deer bounded out of their shelter beside me, tufts of snow flying in their wake.
    • The procedure for making true lacquer required the resin secreted by the Rhus vemicifera, a sumac tree that was not indigenous to the West and was unknown in Europe until the beginning of the eighteenth century.
    1. 1.1 The fruits of the Mediterranean sumac, used as a spice, especially in Middle Eastern cuisine.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The kabob koubideh is composed of ground beef and a considerable amount of minced onion, along with salt, black pepper, turmeric and sumac, and perhaps a hint of lime or lemon juice.
      • These Middle Eastern breads are topped with a paste of dried thyme and sumac, but you could use dried chilli flakes, chopped garlic, nigella seeds, or crushed cumin and coriander seeds.
      • The spice sumac is made from the dried, powdered berries.
      • Examples are glossy black chokecherry, Siberian and ‘red splendor’ crabapple, snowberry, bittersweet, sumacs, American highbush cranberry, eastern and European wahoo, Virginia creeper and Chinaberry.
      • With a generous shaking of deep red, citrusy sumac spice, it had a warm and rich taste.

Origin

Middle English (denoting the dried and ground leaves of R. coriaria used in tanning and dyeing): from Old French sumac or medieval Latin sumac(h), from Arabic summāq.

 
 

Definition of sumac in US English:

sumac

(also sumach)
noun
  • A shrub or small tree of the cashew family, with compound leaves, fruits in conical clusters, and bright autumn colors.

    Genera Rhus and Cotinus, family Anacardiaceae: several species, including the North American staghorn sumac (R. typhina), with densely clustered reddish hairy fruits, and poison sumac (R. vernix), with loosely clustered greenish-white fruits. Touching any part of the poison sumac can cause severe dermatitis

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We also have a staghorn sumac tree and pussy willows.
    • Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
    • Irritated summer skin is usually caused by clogged sweat ducts, a condition called prickly heat or miliaria, or by exposure to poison ivy, oak or sumac.
    • You will remember that we accidentally killed the original tree, a sumach, by suffocating the roots with a mixture of rotting logs and sunflower husks.
    • Oak trees provide acorns, dogwoods and sumac provide red berries through the fall and winter and serviceberry bears edible berries in late spring or early summer.
    • Commonly encountered shrubs barberry and Oregon graperoot (both Berberis species), sumacs, rose, blackberry, raspberry, myrtle, alders and elders.
    • The procedure for making true lacquer required the resin secreted by the Rhus vemicifera, a sumac tree that was not indigenous to the West and was unknown in Europe until the beginning of the eighteenth century.
    • The answer lies in the tremendous diversity of deciduous trees: maples, oaks, sumacs and beech each impart their own range of colours to the overall palette.
    • And you can get even better protection by avoiding poison ivy all together, as well as its cousins poison sumac and poison oak.
    • Taking the trails at a healthy pace, I rounded the corner on a crop of autumn red sumac when two deer bounded out of their shelter beside me, tufts of snow flying in their wake.
    • In the northeastern foothills, on relatively dry slopes, bur oak dominates above an understory of hop hornbeam, smooth sumac, coralberry, and poison ivy.
    • Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry (all members of the rose family), geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs.
    • It only takes one case of poison ivy, oak or sumac to convince most people to stay away from these skin-irritating plants.
    • Our biggest loss this year has been the sumach tree which grew outside the dining room window.
    • In late summer, we cleared the 2-and 3-inch-diameter sumacs that had invaded the old garden.
    • She left the road again and ran until she found another sheltered hollow in the trees and sumac, where she lay down and waited.
    • If a child touches poison ivy, poison oak or a sumac plant, causing an itchy rash with pin-size clear blisters, give him a thorough bath to remove the oily resin that caused the reaction.
    • The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
    • If the vision is clouded, the result is not what we intend; the apple tree is a poison sumac.
    • In October, after the growing season, I had a female sumach tree cut down to ground level.

Origin

Middle English (denoting the dried and ground leaves of R. coriaria used in tanning and dyeing): from Old French sumac or medieval Latin sumac(h), from Arabic summāq.

 
 
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