sorrel vs Rumex acetosa

Rumex acetosa vs sorrel

sorrel and Rumex acetosa both are nouns.

sorrel is an adjective but Rumex acetosa is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No
Rumex acetosa	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Rumex acetosa is a hyponym of sorrel; that is, Rumex acetosa 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
Rumex acetosa: European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens

Other hyponyms of sorrel include garden sorrel, sour dock, Rumex acetosella, sheep's sorrel, sheep sorrel, bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, Rumex obtusifolius, yellow dock, French sorrel, garden sorrel, Rumex scutatus.

sorrel (noun)	Rumex acetosa (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color	European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
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

sorrel (adjective)	Rumex acetosa (adjective)
of a light brownish color

Difference between sorrel and Rumex acetosa

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