Spice vs Sumac - What's the difference?
spice | sumac |
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus including the poison ivy and poison oak.
* 1957 , :
*:There was a Steinway grand piano [...] a cherrywood writing table, and an assortment of floor lamps, table lamps, and "bridge" lamps that sprang up all over the congested inscape like sumac .
A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean made from the berries of the plant.
As nouns the difference between spice and sumac
is that spice is plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food while sumac is any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus including the poison ivy and poison oak.As a verb spice
is to add spice or spices to.spice
English
(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.