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SOUR DOCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sour dock mean?
• SOUR DOCK (noun)
The noun SOUR DOCK has 1 sense:
1. European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
Familiarity information: SOUR DOCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
garden sorrel; Rumex acetosa; sour dock
Hypernyms ("sour dock" 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 "sour dock"):
common sorrel; sorrel (large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces)
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