Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shumack

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: shu-mack
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete spelling of sumac.

Obsolete

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."
"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."
"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."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

shumacks (plural)

Questions

What does shumack mean?: Obsolete spelling of sumac.

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