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sorrel

Noun

Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis (synset 112723708)
is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
subtypes:
- 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
- goat's foot, goatsfoot, oxalis caprina - short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers
- oxalis violacea, violet wood sorrel - perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers
- oca, oka, oxalis crenata, oxalis tuberosa - South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
belongs to: genus oxalis - type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels

same as: oxalis, wood sorrel
Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine (synset 112624720)
is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
subtypes:
- garden sorrel, rumex acetosa, sour dock - 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
belongs to: genus rumex, rumex - docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

same as: dock, sour grass
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 (synset 112200149)
is a type of: hibiscus - any plant of the genus Hibiscus

same as: hibiscus sabdariffa, jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle
Large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces (synset 107752347)
is a type of: green, greens, leafy vegetable - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

is a part of: garden sorrel, rumex acetosa, sour dock - European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens

same as: common sorrel
A horse of a brownish orange to light brown color (synset 102391678)
is a type of: equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Adjective

Of a light brownish color (synset 300385161)
similar to: chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue

same as: brownish-orange

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