Rumex acetosa vs sorrel

sorrel vs Rumex acetosa

Rumex acetosa and sorrel both are nouns.

Rumex acetosa is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Rumex acetosa	Yes	No	No	No
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

Rumex acetosa: European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
sorrel: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

Other hypernyms of Rumex acetosa include dock, sour grass.

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

Rumex acetosa (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between Rumex acetosa and sorrel

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