hibiscus vs red sorrel

red sorrel vs hibiscus

hibiscus and red sorrel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hibiscus	Yes	No	No	No
red sorrel	Yes	No	No	No

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

hibiscus: any plant of the genus Hibiscus
red sorrel: 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

Other hyponyms of hibiscus include bimli, bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kanaf, kenaf, blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, Hibiscus heterophyllus, sorrel tree, common rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos, rose mallow, swamp mallow, swamp rose mallow, Confederate rose, Confederate rose mallow, cotton rose, Hibiscus mutabilis, China rose, Chinese hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Rose of China, shoe black, shoeblack plant, Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, roselle, rozelle, sorrel, Hibiscus syriacus, rose of Sharon, balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau, black-eyed Susan, bladder ketmia, flower-of-an-hour, flowers-of-an-hour, Hibiscus trionum.

hibiscus (noun)	red sorrel (noun)
any plant of the genus Hibiscus	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

Difference between hibiscus and red sorrel

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