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COMMON WOOD SORREL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common wood sorrel mean?
• COMMON WOOD SORREL (noun)
The noun COMMON WOOD SORREL has 1 sense:
1. Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
Familiarity information: COMMON WOOD SORREL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common wood sorrel; cuckoo bread; Oxalis acetosella; shamrock
Hypernyms ("common wood sorrel" is a kind of...):
oxalis; sorrel; wood sorrel (any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis)
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