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GARDEN SORREL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens

Synonyms:

garden sorrel; Rumex acetosa; sour dock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("garden sorrel" is a kind of...):

dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

Meronyms (parts of "garden sorrel"):

common sorrel; sorrel (large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves

Synonyms:

French sorrel; garden sorrel; Rumex scutatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("garden sorrel" is a kind of...):

dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

Meronyms (parts of "garden sorrel"):

French sorrel (greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads)

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