Oxalis caprina vs sorrel

sorrel vs Oxalis caprina

Oxalis caprina and sorrel both are nouns.

Oxalis caprina is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Oxalis caprina	Yes	No	No	No
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

Oxalis caprina: short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers
sorrel: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

Other hypernyms of Oxalis caprina include oxalis, wood sorrel.

Oxalis caprina (noun)	sorrel (noun)
short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers	a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
	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

Oxalis caprina (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between Oxalis caprina and sorrel

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