wood-sorrel family

1. 1.

   a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers

   SynonymsOxalidaceaefamily Oxalidaceae

   Broaderrosid dicot family

   Part ofGeraniales

Questions about wood-sorrel family

What does wood-sorrel family mean?

wood-sorrel family means "a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers".

What is another word for wood-sorrel family?

Close synonyms include Oxalidaceae, family Oxalidaceae. 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 family a common word?

wood-sorrel family 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.