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sorrel vs creeping wood sorrel

creeping wood sorrel vs sorrel

sorrel and creeping wood sorrel both are nouns.

sorrel is an adjective but creeping wood sorrel is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sorrel Yes Yes No No
creeping wood sorrel Yes No No No
As nouns, creeping wood sorrel is a hyponym of sorrel; that is, creeping wood sorrel is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sorrel:
  • sorrel: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
  • creeping wood sorrel: creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
sorrel (noun) creeping wood sorrel (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
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) creeping wood sorrel (adjective)
of a light brownish color
Difference between sorrel and creeping wood sorrel

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