sorrel

noun

a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color

large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

adjective

of a light brownish color

Roots

sursorr- · Frankish · sour elle-el · Old French · diminutive

Synonyms for sorrel

chestnutn roann skewbald

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Where does sorrel come from?

The word sorrel breaks down into 2 roots of Frankish and Old French origin: sorr, from Frankish sur (“sour”); and -el, from Old French elle (“diminutive”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.