Defenition of the word sorrel
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Defenition of the word sorrel
- Perennial herbaceous plant with edible leaves.
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- of a light brownish color
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
Synonyms for the word sorrel
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- brownish-orange
- common sorrel
- dock
- Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Jamaica sorrel
- oxalis
- red sorrel
- roselle
- rozelle
- sour grass
- wood sorrel
Similar words in the sorrel
Meronymys for the word sorrel
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- garden sorrel
- genus Oxalis
- genus Rumex
- Rumex
- Rumex acetosa
- sour dock
Hyponyms for the word sorrel
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- Bermuda buttercup
- bitter dock
- broad-leaved dock
- common wood sorrel
- creeping oxalis
- creeping wood sorrel
- cuckoo bread
- English-weed
- French sorrel
- garden sorrel
- goat's foot
- goatsfoot
- oca
- oka
- Oxalis acetosella
- Oxalis caprina
- Oxalis cernua
- Oxalis corniculata
- Oxalis crenata
- Oxalis pes-caprae
- Oxalis tuberosa
- Oxalis violacea
- Rumex acetosa
- Rumex acetosella
- Rumex obtusifolius
- Rumex scutatus
- shamrock
- sheep sorrel
- sheep's sorrel
- sour dock
- violet wood sorrel
- yellow dock
Hypernyms for the word sorrel
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- Equus caballus
- green
- greens
- herb
- herbaceous plant
- hibiscus
- horse
- leafy vegetable
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