noun
- Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis.
- synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel
- Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.
- synonyms: dock, sour grass
- 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: roselle, rozelle, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces.
- synonyms: common sorrel
- A horse of a brownish orange to light brown color.
adjective
- Of a light brownish color.
- synonyms: brownish-orange
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