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Definition of Sumac family
1. Noun. The cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Anacardium, Genus Anacardium, Astronium, Genus Astronium, Cotinus, Genus Cotinus, Genus Malosma, Malosma, Genus Mangifera, Mangifera, Genus Pistacia, Pistacia, Genus Rhodosphaera, Rhodosphaera, Genus Rhus, Rhus, Genus Schinus, Schinus, Genus Spondias, Spondias, Genus Toxicodendron, Toxicodendron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sumac Family
Literary usage of Sumac family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"sumac family. Trees or shrubs, with acrid resinous or milky sap, alternate or
rarely opposite leaves, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"sumac family. Trees or shrubs, with acrid resinous or milky sap, alternate or
rarely opposite leaves, ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"sumac family (Anacardiaceae). fragrant sumac; sweet-scented sumac. Indigenous shrub,
2 to 6 feet high, growing in woods and rocky situations, ..."
4. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy for Students of Pharmacy, and by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"... JE, OR sumac family. A family consisting of about 400 trees or shrubs, sometimes
climbing, and very abundant in the tropics and sub-tropics, ..."
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