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sorrel vs garden sorrel

garden sorrel vs sorrel

sorrel and garden sorrel both are nouns.

sorrel is an adjective but garden sorrel is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sorrel Yes Yes No No
garden sorrel Yes No No No
As nouns, garden sorrel is a hyponym of sorrel; that is, garden 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
  • garden sorrel: European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
sorrel (noun) garden sorrel (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 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) garden sorrel (adjective)
of a light brownish color
Difference between sorrel and garden sorrel

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