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FRENCH SORREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French sorrel mean? 

FRENCH SORREL (noun)
  The noun FRENCH SORREL has 2 senses:

1. low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leavesplay

2. greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for saladsplay

  Familiarity information: FRENCH SORREL used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRENCH SORREL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

French sorrel; garden sorrel; Rumex scutatus

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

dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

Meronyms (parts of "French sorrel"):

French sorrel (greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

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

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


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