violet wood sorrel

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

   SynonymsOxalis violacea

   Broaderoxalis

Questions about violet wood sorrel

What does violet wood sorrel mean?

violet wood sorrel means "perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers".

What is another word for violet wood sorrel?

Close synonyms include Oxalis violacea. 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 violet wood sorrel a common word?

violet wood sorrel 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.