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WOOD SORREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood sorrel mean? 

WOOD SORREL (noun)
  The noun WOOD SORREL has 1 sense:

1. any plant or flower of the genus Oxalisplay

  Familiarity information: WOOD SORREL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WOOD SORREL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

oxalis; sorrel; wood sorrel

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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