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ˈwood-ˌsorrel
[Englishing of sorrel de boys, superseding woodsour: see wood n.1 and sorrel n.1 (3 a): so called from the sour taste of the leaves, resembling sorrel.]
The common name of Oxalis Acetosella, a low-growing woodland plant having delicate trifoliate leaves and small white flowers streaked with purple, appearing in spring.
1525Grete Herball l. (1529) C vj, Alleluya, wood sorell or cocowes meate. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xliii. 502 Woode Sorrel is a lowe or base herbe, without stalkes. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 192, I took a good quantity of mithridate and wood-sorrel. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. 166 Wood sorrel,..being boiled up with [milk], and coagulating, the whole is put into casks..and kept under ground to be eaten in winter [in Lapland]. 1888T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (ed. 2) I. ii. 42 The first appearance of cuckoo or swallow, of wood sorrel or anemone. 1899R. Bridges Idle Flowers vii, Woodsorrel's pencilled veil.
b. Applied with defining words to other species of Oxalis; also in the West Indies to species of Begonia.
1770J. R. Forster tr. Kalm's Trav. N. Amer. I. 201 The yellow wood sorrel, or Oxalis corniculata. 1855Delamer Kitch. Gard. (1861) 49 The Oxalis crenata, or Notched Wood-sorrel, a tuberous-rooted esculent, cultivated in Peru under the name of Oca. 1858A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 754 Oxalis stricta,..Upright Yellow Wood-sorrel. 1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Isl. 787/2 Sorrel, wood, Begonia acutifolia. |