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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 Oxalis
Familiarity information: WOOD SORREL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
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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