sorrel
English Thesaurus
1. a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | equus caballus, horse, |
| definition | : | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times (noun.animal) |
2. large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | green, greens, leafy vegetable, |
| definition | : | any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | garden sorrel, rumex acetosa, sour dock, |
| definition | : | European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens (noun.plant) |
3. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | hibiscus, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Hibiscus (noun.plant) |
4. any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | garden sorrel, rumex acetosa, sour dock, |
| definition | : | European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus rumex, rumex, |
| definition | : | docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions (noun.plant) |
5. any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | oxalis violacea, violet wood sorrel, |
| definition | : | perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus oxalis, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels (noun.plant) |
6. of a light brownish color (adj.all)
| similar | : | chromatic, |
| definition | : | being or having or characterized by hue (adj.all) |
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