noun
1. low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
• Syn: ↑French sorrel, ↑Rumex scutatus
• Hypernyms: ↑dock, ↑sorrel, ↑sour grass
• Part Meronyms: ↑French sorrel
2. European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
• Syn: ↑sour dock, ↑Rumex acetosa
• Hypernyms: ↑dock, ↑sorrel, ↑sour grass
• Part Meronyms: ↑sorrel, ↑common sorrel
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noun : a European sorrel (Rumex acetosa) with hastate leaves usually much longer than broad that is grown for salad and spring greens
Useful english dictionary. 2012.