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Rhus

noun

Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron). Synonym: genus Rhus.

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... is very exactly repeated in Japan, but is found in no other part of the world, although a species much like it abounds in California. Our other poisonous Rhus (R. venenata), commonly called poison-dogwood, is in no way represented in Western America, but has so close an analogue in Japan that the two were taken for the same by Thunberg and Linnaeus, who called ...

— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

Words linked to "Rhus" : magnoliopsid genus, shumac, sumac, sumach, Anacardiaceae, family Anacardiaceae, dicot genus, Rhus laurina, sumac family, Rhus rhodanthema