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wood sorrels

wood sorrels is the plural 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.

Questions about wood sorrels

What is wood sorrels the plural of?
Wood sorrels is the plural of wood sorrel.

Words near wood sorrels in the dictionary

  1. wood shop
  2. wood shops
  3. wood shot
  4. wood shots
  5. wood sorrel
  6. wood sorrels
  7. wood spirit
  8. wood spirits
  9. wood spurge
  10. wood stork
  11. wood storks

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