sorrel : Idioms & Phrases

• noun large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
  sorrel.
  

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• noun Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
  shamrock; Oxalis acetosella; cuckoo bread.
  

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• noun creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
  creeping oxalis; Oxalis corniculata.
  

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• noun low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
  Rumex scutatus; French sorrel.
  
• noun greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads
  

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• noun low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
  Rumex scutatus; French sorrel.
  
• noun European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
  sour dock; Rumex acetosa.
  

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• noun 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
  sorrel; roselle; rozelle; Jamaica sorrel; Hibiscus sabdariffa.
  

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• (Bot.), a low perennial plant (Oxyria digyna with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. Gray.

Webster 1913

• noun 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
  sorrel; roselle; rozelle; Jamaica sorrel; Hibiscus sabdariffa.
  

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• . (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.

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• (Chem.), binoxalate of potassa; so called because obtained from the juice of Rumex Acetosella, or Rumex Axetosa.
• (Old Chem.), acid potassium oxalate, or potassium quadroxalate, used as a solvent for ink stains; so called because found in the sorrel, or Oxalis. Also sometimes inaccurately called salt of lemon.

Webster 1913

• noun small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
  sheep sorrel; Rumex acetosella.
  

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• . (Bot.), a prerennial herb (Rumex Acetosella) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel.

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• noun small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
  sheep sorrel; Rumex acetosella.
  

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• noun deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves
  sourwood; Oxydendrum arboreum; titi.
  
• noun Australian tree with acid foliage
  Hibiscus heterophyllus.
  

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• (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.

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• (Bot.), a kind of sorrel (Rumex Lunaria) which attains the stature of a small tree, and bears greenish flowers. It is found in the Canary Islands and Teneriffe.

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• (Bot.), a climbing plant (Cissus acida) related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is found in Florida and the West Indies.

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• noun perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers
  Oxalis violacea.
  

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• noun any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
  sorrel; oxalis.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis (Oxalis Acetosella), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of Shamrock.
• (Bot.), any plant of the genus Oxalis.

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• noun a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers
  family Oxalidaceae; Oxalidaceae.
  

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