FRENCH SORREL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("French sorrel" is a kind of...):

green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)

Holonyms ("French sorrel" is a part of...):

French sorrel; garden sorrel; Rumex scutatus (low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves)

Meaning:

Low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves

Synonyms:

French sorrel; garden sorrel; Rumex scutatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("French sorrel" is a kind of...):

dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

Meronyms (parts of "French sorrel"):

French sorrel (greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads)