COMMON SORREL

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Meaning:

Large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

Synonyms:

common sorrel; sorrel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("common sorrel" is a kind of...):

green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)

Holonyms ("common sorrel" is a part of...):

garden sorrel; Rumex acetosa; sour dock (European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens)

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