oxalis
- noun
- /ˈɑːk.sə.lɪs/
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oxalis
- The garden was filled with colorful flowers, including beautiful oxalis with pink and yellow blooms.
Examples
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In early spring, the oxalis plants started to show their clover-like leaves as they emerged from the ground.
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Mastropieri, Scruggs, and Fulk (1990) provided the example of learning the word oxalis, which is a clover-like plant.
Academic text (2005) -
She admired the delicate oxalis growing in the shade, its leaves resembling tiny shamrocks.
Synonyms
A small plant with clover-like leaves and yellow or white flowers that grows in woods and meadows
Compounds
- Specialized
A small low weed with many branches and small yellow flowers that spreads over lawns and gardens
- Specialized
A small forest plant with three heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple veins
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A small creeping plant with three leaflets and tiny yellow flowers often found as a weed
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A bulb plant with clover-like leaves and bright yellow flowers that spreads like a weed
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A plant from eastern North America that lives for several years with purple five-petaled flowers and leaves like clover
Surface Forms
Etymology
Oxalis comes from the Greek root oxys, which means 'sharp' or 'acid'. Many oxalis plants taste sour because they contain oxalic acid, so the name points to their sharp, 'acid' flavour.
