Definition of sorrel Sorrel
/sɔˈɹʌl/ - [sorul] - sor•rel
We found 17 definitions of sorrel from 7 different sources.
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NounPlural: sorrels |
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| sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces | ||
| common sorrel | ||
| greens, leafy vegetable, green any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | ||
| sorrel - a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color | ||
| sorrel - any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis | ||
| oxalis, 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 | ||
| sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | ||
| dock, sour grass | ||
| herbaceous plant, herb aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | ||
| genus rumex, rumex docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions | ||
| rumex acetosa, sour dock, garden sorrel European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens | ||
| rumex acetosella, sheep's sorrel, sheep 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 | ||
| sorrel - 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 | ||
| roselle, rozelle, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa | ||
Adjectivesorrel, sorreller, sorrellest |
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| sorrel - of a light brownish color | ||
| brownish-orange | ||
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Wiktionary 
- sorrel (Noun)
A kind of plant with acidic leaves, especially Rumex acetosa common sorrel , sometimes used as a salad vegetable. - sorrel (Noun)
A brown colour, with a tint of red. - sorrel (Adjective)
Of a brown colour, with a tint of red.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sorrel (a.)
Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse. - sorrel (n.)
A yellowish or redish brown color. - sorrel (n.)
One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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sorrel
Perennial herbaceous plant with edible leaves.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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sorrel
sor′el, n. one of several species of the genus Rumex, allied to the dock, the leaves impregnated with oxalic acid—the Scotch Sourock. The Wood-sorrel belongs to the genus Oxalis. [O. Fr. sorel (Fr. surelle)—sur, sour; from Old High Ger. sūr (Ger. sauer), sour.] -
sorrel
sor′el, adj. of a reddish-brown colour.—n. a reddish-brown colour. [O. Fr. sor (Fr. saure), sorrel, from Low Ger. soor, dried, withered.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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sorrel
A yellowish red. Sorrel pate; one having red hair.
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🔤- sorrel, noun, singular of sorrels.
- sorrel, adjective.
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