sorrel vs Rumex acetosella

Rumex acetosella vs sorrel

sorrel and Rumex acetosella both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Rumex acetosella is a hyponym of sorrel; that is, Rumex acetosella 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 acetosella: small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places

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

sorrel (noun)	Rumex acetosella (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color	small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
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 acetosella (adjective)
of a light brownish color

Difference between sorrel and Rumex acetosella

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