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Word: sumac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approved IvyBlock, the first drug that can guard against POISON IVY, SUMAC and OAK. The over-the-counter lotion binds with plant allergens, preventing them from penetrating the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 9, 1996 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...really a wilderness animal. They are an edge-of-civilization critter. Deep snow and deep forest defeat them. They gobble insects in the warm months, occasionally in the median strips of rural interstate highways. But they get through winters, or don't, foraging for barberries, rose hips, wild apples, sumac, juniper, sedges and fern. What they really like is corn wastage at winter-bound dairy farms and sunflower seeds policed from beneath suburban bird feeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOBBLING OF AMERICA | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

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