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adj
Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
A female given name.
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noun
Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
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noun
Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
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noun
The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
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noun
A brown colour, with a tint of red.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: chestnut
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adjective satellite
of a light brownish color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: brownish-orange
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noun
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: horse, Equus caballus
noun
large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: common sorrel
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Broader terms: greens, green, leafy vegetable
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: roselle, rozelle, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa
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Broader terms: hibiscus
noun
any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dock, sour grass
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: sour dock, garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa, sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella, bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, yellow dock, Rumex obtusifolius, French sorrel, Rumex scutatus
noun
any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, shamrock, Oxalis acetosella, Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis cernua, creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, Oxalis corniculata, goatsfoot, goat's foot, Oxalis caprina, violet wood sorrel, Oxalis violacea, oca, oka, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata
History
From Middle English *sorel, from Middle French *sorel, sorrel, surrel, from Middle French sor (“yellowish-brown, reddish-brown”), probably from Old Frankish *saur (“dried”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *saus- (“dry, parched”); equivalent to sore (“reddish-brown”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch soor (“dry”), Old High German sōrēn (“to become dry”), and Old English sēar (“withered, barren”). See also sere.
From Middle English sorel, from Old French sorel, surele (“sorrel”), from Old French sur (“sour”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”); equivalent to sour + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare Old English sūre (“sorrel”), Icelandic súra (“sorrel”), Dutch zuring (“dock (plant), sorrel”). More at sour.
Across languages
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