green vs sorrel

sorrel vs green

green and sorrel both are nouns.

green and sorrel both are adjectives.

green is a verb but sorrel is not a verb.

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

As nouns, sorrel is a hyponym of green; that is, sorrel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than green:

green: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
sorrel: large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

Other hyponyms of green include chop-suey greens, sprout, beet green, chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard, salad green, salad greens, dandelion green, lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach, wild spinach, turnip greens, common sorrel, French sorrel, spinach.

green (noun)	sorrel (noun)
street names for ketamine	a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass	large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables	any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course	any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area	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

green (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
not fully developed or mature; not ripe	of a light brownish color
concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
looking pale and unhealthy
naive and easily deceived or tricked

green (verb)	sorrel (verb)
turn or become green

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