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Cape sorrels

Cape sorrels is the plural of Cape sorrel.

Meaning of Cape sorrel

Noun

Cape sorrel (plural Cape sorrels)

  1. Any member of the species Oxalis pes-caprae of yellow-flowered sorrels, native to parts of the Middle East, naturalized elsewhere.
    • Outside, the electric yellow caps of cape sorrel & the white
      of the mustard & wild narcissus are pressed flat along the headlands.2010, Kathleen Graber, “Angels Unawares”, in Agni, number 71, page 143 of 142-144

Questions about Cape sorrels

What is Cape sorrels the plural of?
Cape sorrels is the plural of Cape sorrel.

Words near Cape sorrels in the dictionary

  1. Cape salmon
  2. Cape Schanck
  3. cape seahorse
  4. cape seahorses
  5. Cape sorrel
  6. Cape sorrels
  7. Cape sparrow
  8. Cape sparrows
  9. Cape St. George
  10. Cape sugarbird
  11. Cape sundew

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