yellow dock vs sorrel

sorrel vs yellow dock

yellow dock and sorrel both are nouns.

yellow dock is not an adjective while sorrel is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
yellow dock	Yes	No	No	No
sorrel	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

yellow dock: European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America
sorrel: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

Other hypernyms of yellow dock include dock, sour grass.

yellow dock (noun)	sorrel (noun)
European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America	a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
	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

yellow dock (adjective)	sorrel (adjective)
	of a light brownish color

Difference between yellow dock and sorrel

Words related to "yellow dock"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.