rhus copallina

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   common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries

   Synonymsdwarf sumacmountain sumacblack sumacshining sumac

   Broadersumac

Questions about rhus copallina

What does rhus copallina mean?

rhus copallina means "common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries".

What is another word for rhus copallina?

Close synonyms include dwarf sumac, mountain sumac, black sumac, shining sumac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rhus copallina a common word?

rhus copallina is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.