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Sentence Examples
The stag's horn sumach, with leaves of a fiery orange, is one of the cheapest and most attractive of autumn dazzlers.
In October, after the growing season, I had a female sumach tree cut down to ground level.
Our biggest loss this year has been the sumach tree which grew outside the dining room window.
Whether it's bamboo or a stag's horn sumach ready to take over your life, you need to dig a trench.
You will remember that we accidentally killed the original tree, a sumach, by suffocating the roots with a mixture of rotting logs and sunflower husks.
We have two mature stag's horn sumach trees in our garden.
Examples from Classical Literature
Poison sumach is not the same as poisonwood, though sometimes the two are confounded.
Sumach consists of the leaves and sometimes of the small twigs and stems of a species of sumach plant known as the rhus coriaria.
Of our native plants the prickly ash, and the various species of sumach, are the best known.
Mr. Whittier gathered a handful of the red sumach, and took it to Amesbury with him.
The smooth sumach is quite as familiar as the staghorn, as a roadside shrub.
It is distinguished from staghorn sumach by its smooth branches, those of staghorn being hairy.
After they had slain him, many boughs of an oak did they cut, also of sumach.
The black-walnut-tree, the maple-tree, and the sumach furnished our table with wine.
Oak bark, valonia and myrabs are used as dust, though sumach and gambler have been used.
The sumach may be replaced by one third of its weight of nutgalls.
Written also sumac and sumach, both accented on the first syllable.
The American smoke tree is another member of the sumach family.
Why will not my brother the sumach hunt in company with the Red Buffaloes?
The cotton being scoured and bleached, is boiled with sumach.
The dish was seasoned with salt, pepper, cardamom, and sumach.
Two pounds of sumach may be substituted for every pound of galls.
They presently emerged into the clump of sumach bushes, looked warily out, found the coast clear, and were soon lunching and smoking in the skiff.
Three minutes later the old man and his sons, well armed, were up the hill, and just entering the sumach path on tiptoe, their weapons in their hands.
Sumach is the other pyrogallol tan of commercial importance.
