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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

sor·rel1 / ˈsôrəl/ • n. a European plant (genus Rumex) of the dock family, with arrow-shaped leaves that are used in salads and cooking for their acidic flavor. See also wood sorrel. sor·rel2 • n. a horse with a light reddish-brown coat. ∎  [usu. as adj.] a light reddish-brown color: a sorrel mare with four white socks.

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World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

sorrel (dock) Herbaceous perennial plant native to temperate regions. It has large leaves that can be cooked as a vegetable, and small green or brown flowers. Height: to 2m (6ft). Family Polygonaceae; genus Rumex, especially Rumex acetosa.
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A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Sorrel ♀ From the vocabulary word for the plant (Old French surele, apparently a derivative of sur ‘sour’ (of Germanic origin), alluding to the acid taste of its leaves).

Variants: Sorrell, Sorell, Sorel.
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

sorrel A common wild plant (Rumex acetosa); the leaves have a strong acid flavour, and are cooked together with spinach or cabbage, used to make soup (see borscht), and used in salads. See also Rosella.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

sorrel1 (leaves of) plant of the genus Rumex, having a sour taste. XIV. — OF. sorele, surele (mod. dial. surelle), f. sur sour — Gmc. *sūraz; see SOUR, -EL2
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

sorrel2 (horse) of bright chestnut colour. XV. — OF. sorel adj., f. sor yellowish, of Gmc. orig.; see -EL2
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

sorrel name for several plants, particularly species of dock (see buckwheat ) and oxalis .

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

sorrel See POLYGONACEAE.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

sorrel •apparel, barrel, carol, Carole, carrel, Carroll, Darrell, Darryl, Farrell •gambrel • spandrel •astral, plastral •cracker-barrel •Errol, feral •petrel, petrol •spectral •central, epicentral, ventral •ancestral, kestrel, orchestral •dextral • Sacheverell • mayoral •sacral • wastrel • cerebral •anhedral, cathedral, dihedral, tetrahedral •hypaethral (US hypethral), urethral •squirrel, Tyrol, Wirral •timbrel, whimbrel •minstrel • arbitral • sinistral • integral •triumviral •spiral, viral •amoral, Balmoral, coral, immoral, laurel, moral, quarrel, sorel, sorrel •cockerel, Cockerell •dotterel • rostral •aboral, aural, choral, floral, goral, oral •austral, claustral •scoundrel • cloistral • neutral • figural •augural •demurral, Durrell •mongrel • sepulchral • lustral •spheral • retiral •crural, jural, mural, neural, plural, rural •illiberal, liberal •natural • federal • peripheral •doggerel • mackerel • pickerel •bicameral, unicameral •admiral •ephemeral, femoral •humeral, numeral •general • mineral • funeral •spatio-temporal, temporal •corporal • tesseral • visceral •bilateral, collateral, equilateral, lateral, multilateral, quadrilateral, trilateral, unilateral •pastoral •electoral, pectoral, prefectoral, protectoral •clitoral, literal, littoral, presbyteral •dipteral, peripteral •doctoral • several • behavioural •conferral, deferral, referral, transferral

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Sorrel adds tang ... to omelet, salmon, chicken, turkey soup. (recipes)
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