sorrel
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(satellite adjective) of a light brownish color |
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Synonyms: brownish-orange |
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(noun) a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color |
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Related Words: Equus caballus, horse |
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(noun) large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces |
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Synonyms: common sorrel |
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Related Words: green, greens, leafy vegetable |
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(noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine |
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Synonyms: dock, sour grass |
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Related Words: French sorrel, Rumex acetosa, Rumex acetosella, Rumex obtusifolius, Rumex scutatus, bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, garden sorrel, herb, herbaceous plant, sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel, sour dock, yellow dock |
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(noun) any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis |
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Synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel |
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Related Words: Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis acetosella, Oxalis caprina, Oxalis cernua, Oxalis corniculata, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis violacea, common wood sorrel, creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, goat's foot, goatsfoot, herb, herbaceous plant, oca, oka, shamrock, violet wood sorrel |
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(noun) 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 |
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Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle |
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Related Words: hibiscus |
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