Sorrel
101common wood sorrel — noun Eurasian plant with heart shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple veined flowers • Syn: ↑cuckoo bread, ↑shamrock, ↑Oxalis acetosella • Hypernyms: ↑oxalis, ↑sorrel, ↑wood sorrel …
102creeping wood sorrel — noun creeping much branched mat forming weed; cosmopolitan • Syn: ↑creeping oxalis, ↑Oxalis corniculata • Hypernyms: ↑oxalis, ↑sorrel, ↑wood sorrel …
103Jamaica sorrel — 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 • Syn: ↑roselle, ↑rozelle, ↑sorrel, ↑red sorrel, ↑Hibiscus sabdariffa • Hypernyms:… …
104sheep sorrel — noun small plant having pleasantly acid tasting arrow shaped leaves; common in dry places • Syn: ↑sheep s sorrel, ↑Rumex acetosella • Hypernyms: ↑dock, ↑sorrel, ↑sour grass …
105violet wood sorrel — noun perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose purple flowers • Syn: ↑Oxalis violacea • Hypernyms: ↑oxalis, ↑sorrel, ↑wood sorrel * * * noun : a perennial herb (Oxalis violacea …
106salt of sorrel — or salts of sorrel : either of two salts: a. : potassium oxalate b b. : potassium tetroxalate * * * Chem. See potassium binoxalate. * * * salt of sorrel …
107toad sorrel — noun or toad s sorrel : sheep sorrel …
108white wood sorrel — noun Etymology: white (I) + wood sorrel : a white flowered wood sorrel (as Oxalis acetosella) …
109Mountain sorrel — Mountain Moun tain (moun t[i^]n), a. 1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air;… …
110salts of sorrel — Lemon Lem on (l[e^]m [u^]n), n. [F. limon, Per. l[imac]m[=u]n; cf. Ar. laim[=u]n, Sp. limon, It. limone. Cf. {Lime} a fruit.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid.… …
