sorrel - Definition | Dictionary definition of sorrel

Definition of sorrel

Nouns

any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

Synonyms:: oxalis, wood sorrel

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; Oxalis acetosella, common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, 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; Oxalis corniculata, creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel
creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan; Oxalis caprina, goat's foot, goatsfoot
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; Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa, oca, oka
South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers

Type of:: herb, herbaceous plant
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

Synonyms:: dock, sour grass

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; Rumex acetosa, garden sorrel, sour dock
European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens; Rumex acetosella, sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel
small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places; Rumex obtusifolius, bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, yellow dock
European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America; French sorrel, Rumex scutatus, garden sorrel
low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves

Type of:: herb, herbaceous plant
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

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