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Definition of Laurel sumac
1. Noun. Small aromatic evergreen shrub of California having paniculate leaves and whitish berries; in some classifications included in genus Rhus.
Group relationships: Genus Malosma, Malosma
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laurel Sumac
Literary usage of Laurel sumac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1876)
"... ,—laurel sumac.—South California. A low spreading tree, much branched and very
leafy, and exhaling to а considerable distance an aromatic odor. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"2). and its drupes are used like those of the smooth sumac. Also black or mountain
sumac. — Jamaica sumac. Same as coral sumac —laurel sumac, the California ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... strawberry, grape and black currant; and conspicuous among a very great variety
of shrubs and flowering plants arc the rose, dogwood,, laurel, sumac, ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Laurel-Sumac. Panicle much branched with slender divisions, glabrous or nearly
so; leaves mostly ovate or lanceolate; drupe 1 line long. 2. ..."
5. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"laurel sumac (Rhus laurina), Sour Berry (Rhus integrifolia}, Sugar Bush (Rhus
ovata) are southern shrubs sometimes arborescent and exhibiting trunks six ..."
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