French sorrel vs sorrel

sorrel vs French sorrel

French sorrel and sorrel both are nouns.

French sorrel is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
French sorrel	Yes	No	No	No
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, sorrel is a hypernym of French sorrel; that is, sorrel is a word with a broader meaning than French sorrel:

French sorrel: low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
sorrel: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

Other hypernyms of French sorrel include dock, sour grass.

French sorrel (noun)	sorrel (noun)
greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads	a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves	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
	any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
	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

French sorrel (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

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