wood sorrel

1. 1.

   any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

   Synonymsoxalissorrel

   Broaderherb

   Narrowercommon wood sorrelBermuda buttercupcreeping oxalisgoatsfootviolet wood sorreloca

   Part ofgenus Oxalis

Questions about wood sorrel

What does wood sorrel mean?

wood sorrel means "any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis".

What is another word for wood sorrel?

Close synonyms include oxalis, 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 wood sorrel a common word?

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.