sorrel

Adjective

• of a light brownish color

Noun

• a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color

• large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

• 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

• any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

• any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  brownish-orange , common sorrel , roselle , rozelle , red sorrel , Jamaica sorrel , Hibiscus sabdariffa , dock , sour grass , oxalis , wood sorrel