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    WOOD SORREL

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalisplay

    Synonyms:

    oxalis; sorrel; wood sorrel

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("wood sorrel" is a kind 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)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood sorrel"):

    common wood sorrel; cuckoo bread; Oxalis acetosella; 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)

    creeping oxalis; creeping wood sorrel; Oxalis corniculata (creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan)

    goat's foot; goatsfoot; Oxalis caprina (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)

    oca; oka; Oxalis crenata; Oxalis tuberosa (South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers)

    Holonyms ("wood sorrel" is a member of...):

    genus Oxalis (type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels)

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