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Sumac vs Saffian - What's the difference?

sumac | saffian |

As nouns the difference between sumac and saffian

is that sumac is any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus including the poison ivy and poison oak while saffian is a leather made from goatskins or sheepskins which is tanned with sumac and then brightly dyed.

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

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    saffian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A leather made from goatskins or sheepskins which is tanned with sumac and then brightly dyed.