sumac

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Editorial note

DCC reacts with amino groups in proteins, same as urushiol in poison {oak,ivy,sumac} and is a notorious sensitizer.

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A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.

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noun

A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.

noun

Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and certain other genera in Anacardiaceae.

noun

particularly, one of species Rhus coriaria (tanner's sumac)

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Core meanings and parts of speech for sumac.

noun

A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.

See also: sumach, shumac

noun

Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and certain other genera in Anacardiaceae.

See also: sumach, shumac

noun

particularly, one of species Rhus coriaria (tanner's sumac)

See also: sumach, shumac

noun

Alternative form of soumak. [A flatweave technique for making sturdy, decorative fabrics used for carpets, bags, bedding, etc.]

See also: sumach, shumac

Example sentences

DCC reacts with amino groups in proteins, same as urushiol in poison {oak,ivy,sumac} and is a notorious sensitizer.

There are some native sumacs here but the fact that there are large chunks of sumac monoculture I think that some of the sumac in my area was introduced.

For added heresy I replace the neeps with baked beans, themselves livened up with some sumac or similar.

For instance, students in SUMaC will pick a subject in number theory, abstract algebra, or algebraic topology to study for three weeks.

You don't roll around anywhere daily, let alone on poison oak/ivy/sumac.

I was surprised to find no associated programming languages for sumac and bay (leaf).

Same place had a sumac sorbet that was divine.

The allergens in the non-Toxicodendron plants listed in Table 2 are generally noncatechol phenols and resorcinols, and not the highly allergenic catechols in poison ivy, oak, and sumac.

Here (southern Ontario, on 6 acres), if I leave an area unmowed, it'll be covered in staghorn sumac and invasive mulberries within a year.

The buds and stem tips are especially good giveaways, but I didn't really realize it until I lived somewhere with multiple species of sumac.

A well-known phenomenon in the US military is that some of the sites for Basic Training of new recruits have prodigious quantities of poison oak/ivy/sumac as the local flora.

In the case of the sumac and others, it took a couple weeks before the plant was visibly wilting, but after a while, even untreated suckers several yards away died.

Quote examples

Around here the worst "aggressives" seem to be the Teasel/Dipsacus (brought over from Europe because they were used in wool production or something?), Creeping Charlie (also Europeans), and Sumac.

The hypothesis that early skin exposure to catechols may allow cross-reaction to other Anacardiaceae, whereas early oral exposure to phenols and resorcinols may induce tolerance, has been expressed." Regarding the chemical composition, urushiol (in poison ivy/oak/sumac): "is a mixture of 3-n-pentadecylcatechols, which contain a catechol ring moiety substituted with different aliphatic side chains at position 3 or 4.