sour grass

Questions about sour grass

What does sour grass mean?

sour grass means "any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine".

What is another word for sour grass?

Close synonyms include dock, 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 sour grass a common word?

sour grass 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.