rhus vernix

What does rhus vernix mean?

rhus vernix means "smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil".

What is another word for rhus vernix?

Close synonyms include poison ash, poison dogwood, poison sumac, Toxicodendron vernix. 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 vernix a common word?

rhus vernix 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rhus vernix come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.