| vinegar tree | |
noun | |
| 1. | 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 [syn: staghorn sumac] |
| 2. | common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries [syn: smooth sumac] |