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Meanings of sour grass in English

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

        Usage of sour grass in English
        1
        The ground produces some sour grass - not a great deal.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
        2
        It tastes like other things to eat: dried fruit sometimes, or sour grass, or hazelnuts.
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        3
        Take a pound of sour grass (sorrel), remove leaves, wash well, cut and squeeze well.
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        4
        There's not a bit of swampy ground or a patch of sour grass on the farm, he thought bitterly.
        Fenton's Quest
        5
        There were patches of that gray moss which blossoms with a tiny red flower, and there was mullein and sour grass.
        Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
        6
        The horses and sheep, unaccustomed to the sour grasses of the coast lands of northern Australia, pined and rapidly wasted away.
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