genus Rhus

genus 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)
Syn: ↑Rhus
Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
Member Holonyms: ↑Anacardiaceae, ↑family Anacardiaceae, ↑sumac family
Member Meronyms: ↑sumac, ↑sumach, ↑shumac

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