sor·rel 1 (sôr  l, s r-)n. 1. Any of several plants of the genus Rumex, having acid-flavored leaves sometimes used as salad greens, especially R. acetosella, a widely naturalized Eurasian species. Also called dock4. 2. Any of various plants of the genus Oxalis, having usually compound leaves with three leaflets. [Middle English sorel, from Old French surele, from sur, sour, of Germanic origin.] |
| sor·rel 2 (sôrl, sr-) n. 1. A brownish orange to light brown. 2. A sorrel-colored horse or other animal. [From Middle English sorel, sorrel-colored, from Old French, from sor, red-brown, of Germanic origin.] |
sorrel
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a plant with bitter-tasting leaves which are used in salads and sauces [Old French surele]
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| Noun | 1. |  sorrel - any plant or flower of the genus Oxalisherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Oxalis - type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella, shamrock - Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis cernua, Oxalis pes-caprae - South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, Oxalis corniculata - creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan Oxalis violacea, violet wood sorrel - perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers oca, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa, oka - South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers |
| 2. |  sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicineherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Rumex, Rumex - docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions Rumex acetosa, sour dock, garden sorrel - European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens Rumex acetosella, sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel - small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, Rumex obtusifolius, yellow dock - European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America French sorrel, garden sorrel, Rumex scutatus - low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves | |
| 3. |  sorrel - East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiberhibiscus - any plant of the genus Hibiscus | |
| 4. |  sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and saucesgreens, leafy vegetable, green - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables Rumex acetosa, sour dock, garden sorrel - European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens | |
| 5. | sorrel - a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | |
| Adj. | 1. | sorrel - of a light brownish color chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue |
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