About The Word Sorrel
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Sorrel
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What's The Definition Of Sorrel?
[n] a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
[n] large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces [n] 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 [n] any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine [n] any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis [adj] of a light brownish color Synonyms | Synonyms for Sorrel: brownish-orange | chromatic | common sorrel | dock | Hibiscus sabdariffa | Jamaica sorrel | oxalis | red sorrel | roselle | rozelle | sour grass | wood sorrel Related Terms | Find terms related to Sorrel: See Also | Bermuda buttercup | bitter dock | broad-leaved dock | common wood sorrel | creeping oxalis | creeping wood sorrel | cuckoo bread | English-weed | Equus caballus | French sorrel | garden sorrel | garden sorrel | genus Oxalis | genus Rumex | goat's foot | goatsfoot | green | greens | herb | herbaceous plant | hibiscus | horse | leafy vegetable | oca | oka | Oxalis acetosella | Oxalis caprina | Oxalis cernua | Oxalis corniculata | Oxalis crenata | Oxalis pes-caprae | Oxalis tuberosa | Oxalis violacea | Rumex | Rumex acetosa | Rumex acetosa | Rumex acetosella | Rumex obtusifolius | Rumex scutatus | shamrock | sheep sorrel | sheep's sorrel | sour dock | sour dock | violet wood sorrel | yellow dock Sorrel In Webster's Dictionary \Sor"rel\, a. [F. saur, saure, OF. sor, sore, probably of
Teutonic origin; cf. D. zoor dry, LG. soor; the meaning
probably coming from the color of dry leaves. See {Sear}, a.,
and cf. {Sorel}.]
Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.
\Sor"rel\, n. A yellowish or redish brown color. \Sor"rel\, n. [F. surelle, fr. sur sour, fr. OHG. s?r sour. See {Sour}.] (Bot.) One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus {Rumex}, as {Rumex Acetosa}, {Rumex Acetosella}, etc. {Mountain sorrel}. (Bot.) See under {Mountain}. {Red sorrel}. (Bot.) (a) A malvaceous plant ({Hibiscus Sabdariffa}) whose acid calyxes and capsules are used in the West Indies for making tarts and acid drinks. (b) A troublesome weed ({Rumex Acetosella}), also called {sheep sorrel}. {Salt of sorrel} (Chem.), binoxalate of potassa; -- so called because obtained from the juice of {Rumex Acetosella}, or {Rumex Axetosa}. {Sorrel tree} (Bot.), a small ericaceous tree ({Oxydendrum arboreum}) whose leaves resemble those of the peach and have a sour taste. It is common along the Alleghanies. Called also {sourwood}. {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), any plant of the genus Oxalis. |
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