vinegar tree

Noun

• common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries

• deciduous shrubby tree or eastern North America with compound leaves that turn brilliant red in fall and dense panicles of greenish yellow flowers followed by crimson acidic berries

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  smooth sumac , scarlet sumac , Rhus glabra , staghorn sumac , velvet sumac , Virginian sumac , Rhus typhina