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Adjective sorrel has 1 sense
  1. sorrel, brownish-orange - of a light brownish color
    Antonym: achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
,Noun sorrel has 5 senses
  1. oxalis, sorrel, wood sorrel - any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
    --1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
    --1 is a member of genus Oxalis
    --1 has particulars:
     common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, shamrock, Oxalis acetosella; Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis cernua; creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, Oxalis corniculata; goatsfoot, goat's foot, Oxalis caprina; violet wood sorrel, Oxalis violacea; oca, oka, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata
  2. dock, sorrel, sour grass - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
    --2 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
    --2 is a member of Rumex, genus Rumex
    --2 has particulars:
     sour dock, garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa; sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella; bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, yellow dock, Rumex obtusifolius; French sorrel, garden sorrel, Rumex scutatus
  3. roselle, rozelle, sorrel, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa - 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
    --3 is a kind of hibiscus
  4. sorrel, common sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
    --4 is a kind of greens, green, leafy vegetable
    --4 is a part of sour dock, garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa
  5. sorrel - a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
    --5 is a kind of     horse, Equus caballus
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