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sorrel

sorrel

4 7.0
A plant with sour green leaves used in salads or cooking
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔrəl/
: aceder
  • Most of the garlic looks good, and my year-old sorrel plants are back.
  • wood sorrel
  • sorrel leaves
  • sheep sorrel

We conquer grape juice and red wine vinegar, and we also have sorrel.

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Examples

  • Herbs like parsley, dill, and sorrel were self-sowing and grew everywhere in impenetrable thickets.

    Blog text (4)
  • And he served us like the most amazing meal of my life, you know, and it started out with Latvian sorrel soup with braised hammocks.

  • A woman carrying a basket of wild sorrel passes our table.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Things like chickweed and sorrel, which has a lemony taste.

  • Soon we were sitting in the promised pool, eating crackers and watching a squadron of bees inspect the blossoms of the pink-veined wood sorrel beneath the trees.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Wildflowers include mountain sorrel (an evergreen), false lily of the valley, bluebead lily, and White Mountain aster.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Most of them died, but she brought the Gold Flume children up on the last day of school every year to see the rue and rosemary, the mint and sorrel, the aloe, clove, and balm.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • While she sliced sorrels and onions, split chicken breasts, melted butter, and mixed it with bread crumbs in saucepans the size of bathtubs.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The slopes and low hills that fell gently toward the river only appeared welcoming; underneath vines, carpet grass, wild grape, hibiscus, and wood sorrel, the ground was as porous as a sieve.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • You may also want to add sorrel to your pot of mixed greens.

Synonyms

wood sorrel
vssorrel
1 7.2

A small plant with clover-like leaves and yellow or white flowers that grows in woods and meadows

is usually other sour-leaf plants not the small clover-like woodland species
oxalis
vssorrel
  • Specialized
1 9.5

A small plant with clover-like leaves and small yellow or pink flowers

is the broader common name covering several sour-leaf species across genera
sheep's sorrel
vssorrel
1 8.6

A small plant with arrow-shaped sour leaves often eaten in salads and growing in dry places

is the wider term for sour-leaf species used in salads and remedies
sour grass
vssorrel
1 8.1

A small plant like clover with a sour taste that people eat as a green

is the collective name for various sour-leaf plants including weeds
French sorrel
vssorrel
1 7.6

A small green herb with sour leaves used in salads and cooking

is the broader name for several edible sour-leaf plants
garden sorrel
vssorrel
1 5.6

A plant with sour leaves used in salads and cooking

is the general term that covers similar sour plants used in cooking
sour dock
vssorrel
1 8.6

A plant with large sour leaves used in salads and spring greens

is the general label for various sour-leaf plants used in food
common sorrel
vssorrel
6.1

A leafy herb with sour pointed leaves used in salads and sauces

is the broader name for several sour-leaf plants used in cooking

Compounds

1 7.2

A small plant with clover-like leaves and yellow or white flowers that grows in woods and meadows

A small plant with arrow-shaped sour leaves often eaten in salads and growing in dry places

1 8.1

A small plant with arrow-shaped sour leaves often used in salads

A small plant with clover-like leaves and purple-pink flowers

1 9.6

A plant from India with red edible flower parts used to make drinks and jams

A small green herb with sour leaves used in salads and cooking

A plant with sour leaves used in salads and cooking

A small forest plant with three heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple veins

A leafy herb with sour pointed leaves used in salads and sauces

A small weed that grows close to the ground with leaves like a clover and small yellow flowers

A tropical plant with red flower parts people use to make drinks, jams, and sometimes fiber

sorrel tree
  • Australian
9.9

A tree from Australia with sour leaves

8.6

A North American tree with rough bark, white fragrant flowers, sour leaves

wood-sorrel family
  • Specialized
8.9

A group of flowering plants like wood-sorrel with leaves divided into parts and flowers with five petals

How Sour

lemon
308 1.0
sorrel
4 7.0
spinach
87 1.0
lettuce
102 1.0

Surface Forms

sorrel singular
sorrels plural

Etymology

Sorrel comes from an old French word that meant 'sour', because the plant's leaves taste sharp and tart. So the name helps you remember that sorrel is the sour-tasting herb often used in salads.