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wood-sorrel

wood-sorrel is the alternative form of wood sorrel.

Meaning of wood sorrel

Noun

wood sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural wood sorrels)

  1. A white-flowered, edible woodland plant, Oxalis acetosella.
    • James learned to chew the wood sorrel for its acid flavour, to watch for its flowers closing on approach of rain, and found where the rare bird's-nest orchid grew.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13
    Synonyms:
    cuckoo bread
  2. Any of several other species of the genus Oxalis.

Forms of wood-sorrel

pluralwood-sorrels

Questions about wood-sorrel

What is wood-sorrel the alternative form of?
Wood-sorrel is the alternative form of wood sorrel.

Words near wood-sorrel in the dictionary

  1. wood-rots
  2. wood-sere
  3. wood-shaving flower
  4. wood-shaving flowers
  5. wood-smoked
  6. wood-sorrel
  7. wood-sorrels
  8. wood-stove
  9. wood-stoves
  10. wood-thistle
  11. wood-thistles

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