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VENETIAN SUMAC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Venetian sumac mean?
• VENETIAN SUMAC (noun)
The noun VENETIAN SUMAC has 1 sense:
1. Old World shrub having large plumes of yellowish feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
Familiarity information: VENETIAN SUMAC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old World shrub having large plumes of yellowish feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cotinus coggygria; Venetian sumac; wig tree
Hypernyms ("Venetian sumac" is a kind of...):
smoke bush; smoke tree (any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus)
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