Definition of Rhus vernix

1. Noun. Smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhus Vernix

Rhus aromatica
Rhus copallina
Rhus diversiloba
Rhus glabra
Rhus laurina
Rhus ovata
Rhus quercifolia
Rhus radicans
Rhus rhodanthema
Rhus toxicodendron antigen
Rhus toxicodenedron
Rhus trilobata
Rhus typhina
Rhus venenata antigen
Rhus verniciflua
Rhus vernix (current term)
Rhyacian
Rhyacotriton
Rhyacotriton olympicus
Rhynchocephalia
Rhynchoelaps
Rhynchoelaps australis
Rhyncostylis
Rhynia
Rhyniaceae
Rhætian
Rhætians
Rhône-Alpes
Rian
Riau

Literary usage of Rhus vernix

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pathogenetic Outlines of Homœpathic Drugs by Carl Heinigke (1880)
"The pathogenetic results of Rhus vernix s. venenata upon the healthy agree with ... It may only be mentioned that the action of Rhus vernix upon the skin, ..."

2. Transactions (1865)
"It was brought about in the following manner : On the 22d of November, 1863, a stick of rhus vernix, as large as my wrist and two feet long, ..."

3. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1856)
"SWAMP, or poisonous sumach, in the homoeopathic materia medica, known as Rhus vernix, is a native of Nepaul and Japan, and not of North America, ..."

4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"One of the most interesting accounts of some species of Rhus is "An Experimental Dissertation on the Rhus vernix (venenata), Rhus radicans, ..."

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