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garden sorrel

Definitions of garden sorrel
  1. noun
    European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
    synonyms: Rumex acetosa, sour dock
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    type of:
    dock, sorrel, sour grass
    any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
  2. noun
    low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
    synonyms: French sorrel, Rumex scutatus
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    type of:
    dock, sorrel, sour grass
    any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
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