| ADJECTIVE | all | sorrel, brownish-orange | of a light brownish color |
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| NOUN | plant | sorrel, oxalis, wood sorrel | any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis |
| plant | sorrel, dock, sour grass | any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | |
| plant | sorrel, roselle, rozelle, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa | 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 | |
| food | sorrel, common sorrel | large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces | |
| animal | sorrel | a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color |
| Sounds | sao'rahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Of a light brownish color. | |
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| Synonym | brownish-orange | |
| Broader | chromatic | Being or having or characterized by hue |
| Spanish | alazán | |
| Catalan | bai | |
| Meaning | Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis. | |
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| Synonyms | oxalis, wood sorrel | |
| Member of | genus Oxalis | type genus of the Oxalidaceae |
| Narrower | Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis cernua | South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers |
| common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, shamrock, Oxalis acetosella | Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers | |
| creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, Oxalis corniculata | Creeping much-branched mat-forming weed | |
| goatsfoot, goat's foot, Oxalis caprina | short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | |
| oca, oka, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata | South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers | |
| violet wood sorrel, Oxalis violacea | perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers | |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
| Spanish | oxalis | |
| Catalan | oxalis | |
| Meaning | 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 | |
| Member of | Rumex, genus Rumex | docks |
| Narrower | French sorrel, garden sorrel, Rumex scutatus | Low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves |
| bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, yellow dock, Rumex obtusifolius | European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock / rootstock common as a weed in North America | |
| sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella | small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves | |
| sour dock, garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa | European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens | |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
| Spanish | acedera, romaza | |
| Meaning | 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 | roselle, rozelle, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa | |
| Broader | hibiscus | Any plant of the genus Hibiscus |
| Spanish | roselle, rozelle | |
| Catalan | Hibiscus sabdariffa, roselle, Roselle, rozelle | |
| Meaning | large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces. | |
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| Synonym | common sorrel | |
| Part of | sour dock, garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa | European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens |
| Broader | greens, green, leafy vegetable | Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables |
| Spanish | aceda, acedera, agrilla, rumex acetosa | |
| Catalan | agrella, vinagrella | |
| Meaning | A horse of a brownish orange to light brown color. | |
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| Broader | horse, Equus caballus | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times |
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