sorrel

英 [ˈsɒrəl]

美 [ˈsɔːrəl]

n.  酸模，酸叶草(叶酸辣，可用于烹饪)

复数：sorrels　

BNC.27679 / COCA.26802

牛津词典

noun

• 酸模，酸叶草（叶酸辣，可用于烹饪）
  a plant with leaves that taste bitter and are used in cooking as a herb

柯林斯词典

• 酸模(其叶味苦，有时用于色拉和调味汁中)
  Sorrelis a plant whose leaves have a bitter taste and are sometimes used in salads and sauces.

英英释义

noun

• a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
• large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
  Synonym:common sorrel
• 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
  Synonym:rosellerozellered sorrelJamaica sorrelHibiscus sabdariffa
• any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
  Synonym:docksour grass
• any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
  Synonym:oxaliswood sorrel

adj

• of a light brownish color
  Synonym:brownish-orange

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