sorrel vs goat's foot

goat's foot vs sorrel

sorrel and goat's foot both are nouns.

sorrel is an adjective but goat's foot is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No
goat's foot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, goat's foot is a hyponym of sorrel; that is, goat's foot is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sorrel:

sorrel: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
goat's foot: short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers

Other hyponyms of sorrel include common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella, shamrock, Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis cernua, Oxalis pes-caprae, creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, Oxalis corniculata, goatsfoot, Oxalis caprina, Oxalis violacea, violet wood sorrel, oca, oka, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa.

sorrel (noun)	goat's foot (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color	short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers
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)	goat's foot (adjective)
of a light brownish color

Difference between sorrel and goat's foot

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