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Sorrel

noun

1.

Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis. Synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel.

2.

Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine. Synonyms: dock, sour grass.

3.

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. Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle.

4.

Large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces. Synonym: common sorrel.

5.

A horse of a brownish orange to light brown color.

adjective

1.

Of a light brownish color. Synonym: brownish-orange.

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"Sorrel" Quotes from Famous Books

... up into the blazed face of the sorrel. Five miles farther from the crest of a hill they looked down on the village of Breton Junction, with the squat, sunlit roof of the station in the middle—box cars grouped about, semaphore above, and long lines of telegraph poles that came from out the south and disappeared ...

— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux

... well mounted upon a sorrel mare, and urging her with the spur he soon came in range of the red-skin furthest in the ...

— Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. - Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood • Prentiss Ingraham

... have the pleasure to see him. "A detachment of five-and-twenty Saxon Dragoons of the Regiment Arnstedt, marching towards Dantzig, met me: their horses were in tolerable case; but some are piebald, some sorrel, and some brown among them," which will be shocking to your Majesty, "and the people did ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... have said the sorrel soup is fit for a king, and a king has many millions," I rejoined. "I shall always be glad to come, provided Lucy and Dannie have no objection." "You remember their names, don't you?" Mrs. Margolis said, beamingly. "You ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

... all regular," he said. "He's leading a sorrel horse—Dolver's horse. Old Morgan got Dolver—looks like, the damned old gopher! Men as willing as Dolver are not found every day." He looked at the third man, ...

— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer

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