| Noun | 1. vinegar tree - 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 berriesRhus typhina, staghorn sumac, velvet sumac, Virginian sumacshumac, sumach, sumac - a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | | 2. vinegar tree - common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berriesRhus glabra, scarlet sumac, smooth sumacshumac, sumach, sumac - a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) |