sorrel vs Rumex scutatus

Rumex scutatus vs sorrel

sorrel and Rumex scutatus both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Rumex scutatus is a hyponym of sorrel; that is, Rumex scutatus 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 scutatus: low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves

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

sorrel (noun)	Rumex scutatus (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color	low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
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 scutatus (adjective)
of a light brownish color

Difference between sorrel and Rumex scutatus

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