sorrel
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- noun
- /ˈsɔrəl/
- Jargon
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sorrel
- The rider chose a beautiful sorrel horse for the competition, its reddish-brown coat shining in the sunlight.
- sorrel horse
- sorrel mare
- big sorrel
Examples
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The sorrel stood in a small clearing, pawing at the blossom-dusted ground.
Fiction book (2000) -
We saw through one trap the legs and hindquarters of a tall, slender sorrel, its beautiful red coat shaggy with winter.
Fiction book (1992) -
You have his gray and my sorrel ready by then.
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I've decided to keep this little sorrel for myself.
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Late that night, I caught up the sorrel colt who had thrown me and took him to the barn.
Fiction book (2000) -
Tom was riding beside him on a young sorrel gelding.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mike's first pony, Crackerjack, who was a sorrel with sand-colored markings.
Fiction book (2001) -
The shack was packed with horses, a couple of blacks, two red sorrels, and three matching brown and white spotted Appaloosas.
Fiction book (1992) -
A matched team of Belgian workhorses were in the corral along with a sleek-looking sorrel mare.
Fiction book (1990) -
He squinted at the words and then looked at the weary sorrel gelding still being led slowly around the barn by Jed in the morning light.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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5.0
A horse with a reddish-brown coat
Compounds
A small forest plant with three heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple veins
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
A small plant with arrow-shaped sour leaves often eaten in salads and growing in dry places
A small plant with clover-like leaves and yellow or white flowers that grows in woods and meadows
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants like wood-sorrel with leaves divided into parts and flowers with five petals
How Reddish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sorrel for a horse comes from the same plant name, since the horse's coat looks like the reddish-brown shades of some sorrel plants. So a sorrel horse is one with a light, reddish-brown coat.