goat's foot vs sorrel

sorrel vs goat's foot

goat's foot and sorrel both are nouns.

goat's foot is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
goat's foot	Yes	No	No	No
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, sorrel is a hypernym of goat's foot; that is, sorrel is a word with a broader meaning than goat's foot:

goat's foot: short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers
sorrel: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

Other hypernyms of goat's foot include oxalis, wood sorrel.

goat's foot (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

goat's foot (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between goat's foot and sorrel

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