shumac

Other forms of shumac

plural

shumacs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shumac

What does shumac mean?

shumac means "a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus)".

How many syllables are in shumac?

shumac has 2 syllables: shu-mac. The stress falls on "shu".

What is another word for shumac?

Close synonyms include sumac, sumach. 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 shumac a common word?

shumac is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.