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Meanings of sorrel in English

Portuguese
vinagreira

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.

        vinagreira
        Catalan
        oxalis
        Spanish
        oxalis

        Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis.

              oxalis
              Catalan
              agrella
              Spanish
              rumex acetosa

              Perennial herbaceous plant with edible leaves.

                    agrella

                    Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.

                          Usage of sorrel in English
                          1
                          She went out to the stable and led out the old sorrel-mare.
                          The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
                          2
                          Papa went out and bought a sorrel farm horse and sturdy wagon.
                          Her mother's hope
                          3
                          The old sorrel he was so fond of riding is still alive.
                          The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
                          4
                          The sorrel sprang forward, sniffed the air, and threw up his head.
                          Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 01
                          5
                          Pickled girolles and sorrel potato salad Pickled mushrooms are a wonderful thing.
                          The Guardian
                          6
                          The sorrel horse chose this place to make a try for liberty.
                          The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
                          7
                          It was a high strong-limbed sorrel with wild eyes and panting nostrils.
                          The Eternal City
                          8
                          Next came jellied loaf of sorrel cream followed by fresh Baltic herring.
                          The new yorker
                          9
                          Probably, then, the man on the sorrel horse had picked it up.
                          The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
                          10
                          The scalp, with small exceptions is cohered with sorrel or foxy hair.
                          An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American In...
                          11
                          Also the big sorrel I had brought into Jeannot's camp was there.
                          All souls' rising
                          12
                          The scalp, with small exceptions, is covered with sorrel or foxey hair.
                          A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of t...
                          13
                          Bon edged his sorrel toward them, still struggling to control the beast.
                          The devil wears plaid
                          14
                          You can pick up sorrel in the supermarket and in the forest.
                          The Irish Times
                          15
                          He had ridden a sorrel horse, that was all Ricardo could remember.
                          Heart of the Sunset
                          16
                          That was Teddy, a rakish sorrel that had never yet been ridden.
                          A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
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                          Translations for sorrel
                          Portuguese
                          vinagreira
                          Sorrel through the time
                          Sorrel across language varieties
                          United Kingdom
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Common