sorrel vs greens

greens vs sorrel

sorrel and greens both are nouns.

sorrel is an adjective but greens is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No
greens	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, greens is a hypernym of sorrel; that is, greens is a word with a broader meaning than sorrel:

sorrel: large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
greens: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Other hypernyms of sorrel include green, leafy vegetable.

sorrel (noun)	greens (noun)
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color	any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
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)	greens (adjective)
of a light brownish color

Difference between sorrel and greens

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