Rumex acetosella vs sorrel

sorrel vs Rumex acetosella

Rumex acetosella and sorrel both are nouns.

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

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

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

Rumex acetosella: small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
sorrel: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

Other hypernyms of Rumex acetosella include dock, sour grass.

Rumex acetosella (noun)	sorrel (noun)
small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places	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 acetosella (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between Rumex acetosella and sorrel

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