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Definition of Smoke tree

1. Noun. Any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus.

2. Noun. Greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoke Tree

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smoke signals smoke test smoke tests smoke tower smoke tree (current term) smoke up smoke wagon smoke wagons smokeability smokeable

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Literary usage of Smoke tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"smoke tree. See SUMACH. SMOLENSK. I. A W. government of Russia, bordering on Tver, Moscow, Kaluga, Orel, ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"smoke tree. See SUMACH. SMOLENSK. I. A W. government of Russia, bordering on Tver, Moscow, Kaluga, Orel, ..."

3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Smoke-tree. Anacardiaceae. Greek name of the Oleaster. Syn. ... Venice Sumac (Sumach), Venetian Sumac, Smoke-tree, Smoke-plant, False Fringe-tree, ..."

4. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"The Smoke-tree is a rather rare and local species found on wooded river-banks ... This species is closely related to the European Smoke- tree, Rhus Cotinus ..."

5. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"(AMERICAN SMOKE-TREE.) Leaves thin, oval, obtuse, entire, acute at base, 3 to 6 in. long, smooth or nearly so. Flowers and fruit like those of the ..."

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