"shumack" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: shumacks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} shumack (plural shumacks)
  1. Obsolete spelling of sumac Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: sumac
    Sense id: en-shumack-en-noun-ZAnLCFrH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Shumack, Chapacour, and the famous Snake-root, ſo much admir'd in England for being a Cordial, and an Antidote in all Peſtilential Diſeases.",
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          "text": "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.",
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