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sorrel vs French sorrel

French sorrel vs sorrel

sorrel and French sorrel both are nouns.

sorrel is an adjective but French sorrel is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sorrel Yes Yes No No
French sorrel Yes No No No
As nouns, French sorrel is a hyponym of sorrel; that is, French sorrel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sorrel:
  • sorrel: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
  • French sorrel: low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
sorrel (noun) French sorrel (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads
large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
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
sorrel (adjective) French sorrel (adjective)
of a light brownish color
Difference between sorrel and French sorrel

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