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sorrel
has definitions from the fields of zoology,chemistry,food,botany,color
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[ adjective ] (color) of a light brownish color
Synonyms Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He was seeing , somehow , the face of a young boy , the boy Simms_Purdew must once have been , a boy with sorrel hair , and blue eyes dancing with gaiety , and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
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[ noun ] (botany) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
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[ noun ] (botany) any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
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[ noun ] (botany) 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
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[ noun ] (zoology) a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
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