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.
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Wood sorrel, a member of the genus oxalis, is one of many plants with a high oxalate content.
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When Isabel got home, a Norfolk pine sat outside her door along with an oxalis and a purple passion.
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The flowers of the chick-weed, convolvulus, and oxalis, or wood sorrel, close their petals on the approach of rain.
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You owe me an oxalis.
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On the roadside, between the wheel-track and the gulch, grew brilliant Mexican poppies, with Venus's looking-glass, yellow oxalis, and beds of blackberry vines.
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Here he had rooted up the moss and wood sorrel.
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Finished with a little wood sorrel on top, for a gentle touch of acidity.
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You might also find some wood sorrel, a wildflower that grows in old, undisturbed woodland.
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This mackerel tartare is dotted with charred gooseberry slices, wood sorrel and dayglo orange nasturtium petals.
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Tangy wood sorrel that had been boiled and beaten to a pulp was served as a sauce.
Catalan
agrella Spanish
rumex acetosa Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.
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And the sorrels is out with a picnic to Nanum canyon.
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See that gentleman driving that splendid pair of sorrels.
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Howe has taken Mrs. Pemberton's carriage and the pair of sorrels for his own use.
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Now that she has gone, Amos is driving the sorrels again, and they are getting fat.
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Next most frequent were bays, then sorrels, while roans and piebalds, as usual, were distinctly scarce.
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At odd times during the week he examined numbers of chestnut sorrels, tried several, and was unsatisfied.
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There are tons of wood sorrels.
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The superintendent looked the sorrels over carefully; they had taken no end of ribbons at fairs and horse shows.
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His stables emptied of all the fine bays and sorrels and grays that used to prance by his door!
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Along the path came the team-fourmatched sorrels-andbehind them a black carriage, once shiny, now dusty all over.
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We may have lacked the style of our driving out, but Bee said the pace was good for the sorrels.
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Two of the sorrels had been hit by flying bullets and much amazed and stung thereat, but neither was crippled.
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Two experiments had satisfied the Sioux that the captain himself was in command and they had long since recognized the sorrels.
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Such are soils, in some instances at least, that have been newly drained, also soils that grow such plants as sorrels.
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However, Mr. Day had a chance to trade the two old farm horses off that spring for a handsome pair of sorrels.
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Again it was something in Bee's expression, I felt the same way when I called her attention to the length of the sorrels' tails.