smooth sumac

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

   Synonymsscarlet sumacvinegar treeRhus glabra

   Broadersumac

Questions about smooth sumac

What does smooth sumac mean?

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

What is another word for smooth sumac?

Close synonyms include scarlet sumac, vinegar tree, Rhus glabra. 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 smooth sumac a common word?

smooth sumac 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.