sorrel
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
Types & categories
- herb hypernym
- common wood sorrel hyponym
- Bermuda buttercup hyponym
- creeping oxalis hyponym
- goatsfoot hyponym
- violet wood sorrel hyponym
- oca hyponym
Parts & wholes
- genus Oxalis member holonym
Sense 2 adjective
of a light brownish color
Related & opposite
- chromatic similar to
Sense 3 noun
any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
Types & categories
- herb hypernym
- sour dock hyponym
- sheep sorrel hyponym
- bitter dock hyponym
- French sorrel hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Rumex member holonym
Sense 4 noun
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
Types & categories
- hibiscus hypernym
Sense 5 noun
large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
Types & categories
- greens hypernym
Parts & wholes
- sour dock part holonym
Sense 6 noun
a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
Types & categories
- horse hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Oxalis |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | herb |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | common wood sorrel |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Bermuda buttercup |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | creeping oxalis |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | goatsfoot |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | violet wood sorrel |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | oca |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | chromatic |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Rumex |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | herb |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sour dock |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sheep sorrel |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bitter dock |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | French sorrel |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | hibiscus |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | sour dock |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | greens |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | horse |