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Spice vs Sumac - What's the difference?

spice | sumac |

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

  • (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
  • Abstain you from all evil spice .
  • * Sir T. Elyot
  • 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.
    Hyponyms
    * See also
    Hypernyms
    * seasoning
    Coordinate terms
    * herb
    Derived terms
    * allspice * five-spice powder * herbs and spices * spiceberry * spicebush * spicery * spice up * spiciness * spicy * spicy tooth * variety is the spice of life

    Verb

    (spic)
  • To add spice or spices to.
  • Derived terms
    * spice up

    Etymology 2

    Formed by analogy with (mice) as the plural of (mouse) by .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (nonce word)
  • References

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular plurals ----

    sumac

    English

    (wikipedia sumac)

    Alternative forms

    * shumac * sumach

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * poison sumac

    Anagrams

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