greens vs sorrel

sorrel vs greens

greens and sorrel both are nouns.

greens is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

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

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

greens: 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 greens 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.

greens (noun)	sorrel (noun)
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables	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

greens (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between greens and sorrel

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