Usually means: Shrub, produces berries, tangy spice.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sumac: Merriam-Webster
  2. sumac: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sumac: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sumac: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sumac: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sumac, sumac: Wordnik
  7. sumac: Wiktionary
  8. sumac: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sumac (sumach): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sumac: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sumac: Dictionary.com
  12. sumac: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Sumac (band), Sumac (disambiguation), Sumac (spice), Sumac: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sumac: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sumac: Rhymezone
  16. Sumac: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sumac: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. sumac: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sumac: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sumac: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Spices (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. sumac: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sumac: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sumac: Medical dictionary

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  1. SUMaC: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sumac: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sumac)

noun:  Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae
noun:  particularly, one of species Rhus coriaria (tanner's sumac)
noun:  Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes.
noun:  A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.
verb:  (transitive) To apply a preparation of sumac to (an object), for example, to a piece of leather to tan it.
noun:  Alternative form of soumak [A flatweave technique for making sturdy, decorative fabrics used for carpets, bags, bedding, etc.]

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