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.
Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis.
Perennial herbaceous plant with edible leaves.
Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.
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1 The phrase refers to simple common sorrel .
2 Oxalic acid and hot water will remove iron-mould; so also will common sorrel , bruised in a mortar and rubbed on the spots.
3 The leaves are only slightly acid in comparison with those of the Common Sorrel .
4 Of the Common Sorrel , there are five varieties, as follow:-
Other meanings for "sorrels" 1 And the sorrels is out with a picnic to Nanum canyon.
2 See that gentleman driving that splendid pair of sorrels .
3 Howe has taken Mrs. Pemberton's carriage and the pair of sorrels for his own use.
4 Now that she has gone, Amos is driving the sorrels again, and they are getting fat.
5 Next most frequent were bays, then sorrels , while roans and piebalds, as usual, were distinctly scarce.
6 At odd times during the week he examined numbers of chestnut sorrels , tried several, and was unsatisfied.
7 There are tons of wood sorrels .
8 The superintendent looked the sorrels over carefully; they had taken no end of ribbons at fairs and horse shows.
9 His stables emptied of all the fine bays and sorrels and grays that used to prance by his door!
10 Along the path came the team-fourmatched sorrels - and behind them a black carriage, once shiny, now dusty all over.
11 We may have lacked the style of our driving out, but Bee said the pace was good for the sorrels .
12 Two of the sorrels had been hit by flying bullets and much amazed and stung thereat, but neither was crippled.
13 Two experiments had satisfied the Sioux that the captain himself was in command and they had long since recognized the sorrels .
14 Such are soils, in some instances at least, that have been newly drained, also soils that grow such plants as sorrels .
15 However, Mr. Day had a chance to trade the two old farm horses off that spring for a handsome pair of sorrels .
16 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.
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