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sorrel

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sorrel in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. of a light brownish color
    sorrel  brownish-orange 
noun
  1. large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
    sorrel  common sorrel 
  2. any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
    dock  sorrel  sour grass 
  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
    roselle  rozelle  sorrel  red sorrel  Jamaica sorrel  Hibiscus sabdariffa 
  4. any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
    oxalis  sorrel  wood sorrel 
  5. a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
    sorrel 
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