| Noun | 1. | garden 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. | garden sorrel - European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greenscommon sorrel, sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces sour grass, dock, sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine |