WordNet
scarlet sumac
n. common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries [syn: smooth sumac, vinegar tree, Rhus glabra]
Usage examples of "scarlet sumac".
There is an odd little summer house which has been nearly buried in scarlet sumac and a grotesque sundial in the midst of what must once have been a garden.
I showed Karla some birch bark I'd peeled off a tree outside Building Nine and she showed me some scarlet sumac leaves she had found in the forest.