| Noun | 1. | French sorrel - low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves French sorrel - greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads sour grass, dock, sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine |
| 2. | French sorrel - greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads greens, leafy vegetable, green - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables French sorrel, garden sorrel, Rumex scutatus - low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves |