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SOUR GRASS

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Meaning:

Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

Synonyms:

dock; sorrel; sour grass

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sour grass" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sour grass"):

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

Rumex acetosella; sheep's sorrel; sheep sorrel (small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places)

bitter dock; broad-leaved dock; Rumex obtusifolius; yellow dock (European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America)

French sorrel; garden sorrel; Rumex scutatus (low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves)

Holonyms ("sour grass" is a member of...):

genus Rumex; Rumex (docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions)

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