sorrel

IPA: sˈɔrʌɫ

noun

  • Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially
  • Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
  • Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
  • The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
  • A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
  • A brown colour, with a tint of red.
  • A female given name

adjective

  • Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)
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Examples of "sorrel" in Sentences

  • The plant called sorrel is valued for its acidulous taste.
  • Raw sorrel, which is in season locally now, is so sour that it can be used only as an accent.
  • Last year’s sorrel is regrowing in the back yard, as slug-eaten as ever, but still lemony-sharp.
  • We make a drink with it simply called sorrel and it is very popular at Christmas in these parts as it is seasonal then.
  • A sliced onion, or a few blades of chives boiled with the sorrel is a welcome flavor occasionally, also the stock may be half meat stock and half cream or milk.
  • I learned from my co-author of my second cookbook out in October through Lake Isle Press that Jamaicans call it sorrel and combine it with other herbs, roots, spices and cane sugar to make a delicious beverage.
  • Jones, who affected to be surprised at nothing after his crushing experience with railroad freight rates on firweood and charcoal, betrayed no surprise now when the task was given to him to locate the purchaser of a certain sorrel mare.

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