Shumack
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shumack is a noun meaning Obsolete spelling of sumac.
Meaning
Obsolete spelling of sumac.
Example Sentences
Shumack, Chapacour, and the famous Snake-root, ſo much admir'd in England for being a Cordial, and an Antidote in all Peſtilential Diſeases.
He seemed like a broken reed / On the shore of a marshy lake, / In the fall when the shumacks bleed / 'Mid the withering grass of the brake.
Immediately after leaving the town, on each side of the road, were the purple flowers of the iron-weed and the red shumack, under which the deer love to repose, for it conceals them from their enemies, as the variegated heath did the tartan-clad Highlanders.
Word Forms
- shumacks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sumack, sumach, sumac, skunkbush, tamaric, srub.
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