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US
/ˈsɔɹəɫ/
]
[ UK /sˈɒɹəl/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒɹəl/ ]
NOUN
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- 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
ADJECTIVE
- of a light brownish color
How To Use sorrel In A Sentence
- A watercolour by Thundersley-born artist Richard Sorrell has made the collection.
- Its simple to grow and is closely related to wild dock and sorrel, is classed as a vegetable but treated as a fruit.
- Pigeon peas and sorrel are planted so that they bloom at Christmas time.
- Other flowers that are often seen in the bluebell woods are wood anemone, wood sorrel and ramsons (or wild garlic). Times, Sunday Times
- They cling to the stalk and peck the seeds off it, especially the seeds of sorrel and persicaria. Times, Sunday Times
- If you've never grown or tasted French sorrel, now is the time to make its acquaintance.
- Only bays, chestnuts, or sorrels are accepted into the unit and that's only if they pass the training, vet, and farrier evaluations.
- Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries.
- She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Asta was a sorrel mare, chestnut colored, with a flaxen mane and tail.
