oxalis violacea

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   perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers

   Synonymsviolet wood sorrel

   Broaderoxalis

Questions about oxalis violacea

What does oxalis violacea mean?

oxalis violacea means "perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers".

What is another word for oxalis violacea?

Close synonyms include violet wood sorrel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oxalis violacea a common word?

oxalis violacea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.