Definition of oxalis Oxalis
/ɑˈksʌlʌs/ - [aksulus] - ox•a•lis
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What does oxalis mean?
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NounPlural: oxalis |
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| oxalis - any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis | ||
| sorrel, wood sorrel | ||
| herbaceous plant, herb aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | ||
| genus oxalis type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels | ||
| 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 | ||
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Wiktionary 
- oxalis (Noun)
Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Oxalis.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- oxalis (n.)
A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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oxalis
oks′a-lis, n. wood-sorrel: (bot.) a genus of plants having an acid taste.—adj. Oxal′ic, pertaining to or obtained from sorrel. [Gr.,—oxys, acid.]
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🔤- oxalis, noun, singular of oxalises.
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