noun
1. low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
• Syn: ↑garden sorrel, ↑Rumex scutatus
• Hypernyms: ↑dock, ↑sorrel, ↑sour grass
2. greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads
• Hypernyms: ↑greens, ↑green, ↑leafy vegetable
• Part Holonyms: ↑garden sorrel, ↑Rumex scutatus
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nounUsage: usually capitalized F
1. : a wood sorrel (Oxalis montana)
2. : a European garden sorrel (Rumex scutatus)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.