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noun ˈsɒr(ə)lˈsɔrəl 1A European plant of the dock family, with arrow-shaped leaves that are used in salads and cooking for their acidic flavour. Genus Rumex, family Polygonaceae: several species, including the English sorrel (R. acetosa) and the more slender-leaved French sorrel (R. scutatus) See also wood sorrel Example sentencesExamples - The vegie garden looks pretty sad on a hot day, with only carrots, cherry tomatoes, beetroot, French sorrel, leeks, sweet potato and snake beans able to cope in the sun.
- Fagopyrum esculentum, a plant of the same family as rhubarb, sorrel, and dock, is grown for its seeds; these resemble those of cereals.
- Its simple to grow and is closely related to wild dock and sorrel, is classed as a vegetable but treated as a fruit.
- Vegetables were not cultivated, but came in the form of wild carrots, turnip and garlic, along with salad leaves such as sorrel, nettle and dock.
- Along the way we stopped as I spotted dock and sorrel and the broad leaves of plantain beneath our horse's hooves.
- They have persuaded us that if you can only start with a perfect sorrel leaf and a few freshly podded peas, the rest will surely follow.
- There is food if you know where to find it: clusters of mussels and clumps of wild mountain sorrel.
- Gunn Eriksen had already been approached to write a book of her recipes, which use local produce and unexpected ingredients such as hawthorn, nettle and sorrel.
- It is related to sorrel and wild dock and has been used as a purgative for centuries: the ancient Persians valued it for cleansing the blood and purifying the system.
- There is always room to include Italian and curly parsley, sorrel, salad burnet, mustard, chard, and kale greens.
- While soil temperatures are still warm, fertilize leafy greens like spinach, corn salad & sorrel so that they have enough nutrients to take them through the fall.
- Herbs such as wild garlic, sorrel and lamb's tongue grew wild but others like mint, mustard were also grown near the house for daily use.
- Together with dill, sorrel and summer savory, parsley was one of the herbs grown in every garden.
- If you know someone with an established sorrel plant, ask for a small cutting.
- If you've never grown or tasted French sorrel, now is the time to make its acquaintance.
- But the beauty of most edible plants - nettles, dandelions, alexanders, fat hen, sorrel - is that they are so prolific they are considered a nuisance.
- Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries.
- Common sorrel or ‘sourocks’, is an underused and under-appreciated herb.
- If the herb dies back completely, as do parsley, French sorrel, coriander/cilantro, and basil in cold climates, you should remove as many good leaves as you need before they are killed by winter cold.
- My daughter runs by the brief flowers: touch-me-nots among the stones, bluebells and sorrels, solomon's seal.
2A tall annual Caribbean hibiscus with red flowers and stems. Hibiscus sabdariffa, family Malvaceae Example sentencesExamples - The sorrel, a kind of a red plant with pods is collected and soaked to produce a richly colored liquid.
- For instance, there are botanical-based hair colorants rich in herbs such as nettle, sage, red sorrel, rosemary and burdock.
- Pigeon peas and sorrel are planted so that they bloom at Christmas time.
- It is also known as Indian sorrel, Jamaican sorrel, red sorrel, Florida cranberry, rosella, and Ambada in Hindi.
- 2.1mass noun A sweet red drink made from the sepals of the flowers of the red sorrel.
Example sentencesExamples - There are many exotic flavours to sample, but I'm fond of the ginger beer (when it's cold) or the sorrel soda.
- Drinks based on corn, sorrel, and pineapple are also traditional during the holiday season.
- Anyhow, a little fellow was sitting across from this guy watching him eat his cake and drink his sorrel.
- Now you want rum and coconut water and you want black cake and sorrel; you want ganja and you want to go to Solid Gold and Tyrose.
- The combination of flavours were just magical and, although I would normally gag on a glass of Pernod combined with the fennel and sorrel, I was hooked.
- In Christian families, sorrel, made from a flower, and ponche de creme, a kind of eggnog with rum, are typical Christmas drinks.
- I had my first drink of sorrel for the ‘season’ two days ago… nice!
- It was almost like Christmas - except without ham - when mauby and sorrel was served.
- For spring there are pickled ramp Martinis, a sorrel margarita, and rhubarb as a cosmopolitan.
- These leaves are beneficial in the treatment of jaundice and a tablespoon of fresh red sorrel juice mixed with butter-milk (made from cow's milk) is recommended once daily in the treatment of jaundice.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French sorele, of Germanic origin; related to sour. Rhymes amoral, Balmoral, coral, immoral, laurel, moral, quarrel, sorel noun ˈsɒr(ə)lˈsɔrəl 1A horse with a light reddish-brown coat. Example sentencesExamples - A sorrel and black were tethered nearby and an array of tools was strewn over the ground.
- Like any event where you get a mixture of breeds, there were paints, sorrels, bays and palominos… almost anything you could want!
- Both were riding horses, the villager on a fat grey pony and the nobleman on a lean sorrel.
- Rhysa halted her big sorrel next to Myrean and her mount and looked out over the town.
- Rhysa sat in front of Caleb on her stocky little sorrel, and it carried them both easily.
- The knights ride Andalusian crosses of sorrel and bay costumed spectacularly in body and headdress.
- When Custer and staff returned he ordered the saddle taken off his brown horse and put on his favorite sorrel.
- Somehow the sorrel straightened up, surged forward, and proceeded to neatly cross four five-foot fences, an irrigation ditch, a gate, and two hurdles.
- ‘I've only owned this horse for five months,’ she explained from atop her sorrel gelding, Texs Rain Drop.
- Only a few months later, the handsome sorrel foundered and his bid for a World Championship ended.
- Only bays, chestnuts, or sorrels are accepted into the unit and that's only if they pass the training, vet, and farrier evaluations.
- He was cantering down the trail towards them, his bald-faced sorrel kicking up dust.
- It might be said that they saved the best for last because Bergen steered the sorrel gelding to a 227.5 score, to blast ahead in the rein work.
- 1.1mass noun, usually as modifier A light reddish-brown colour.
a sorrel mare with four white socks Example sentencesExamples - His dark brown jaw-length hair fell in messy waves in front of his sorrel eyes.
- The chase had taken ten days, during which Cortez walked at least one hundred twenty miles and rode more than four hundred on brown and sorrel mares.
- Aptly named Stylish And Foxie, the 9-year-old sorrel mare made quick work of the Senior Cutting for a 226 score and the World Championship.
- He tipped his hat and accepted the reins of his sorrel mare from the stable boy.
- Asta was a sorrel mare, chestnut colored, with a flaxen mane and tail.
- You slow down to get a better view and discover a thin, weak, sorrel horse in a small lot.
- I recognized the tribe's leader, Rowan, by his sorrel hair and flanks.
Synonyms hazel, chocolate-coloured, coffee-coloured, cocoa-coloured, nut-brown
Origin Middle English: from Old French sorel, from sor 'yellowish', from a Germanic adjective meaning 'dry'. nounˈsôrəlˈsɔrəl A European plant of the dock family, with arrow-shaped leaves that are used in salads and cooking for their acidic flavor. Genus Rumex, family Polygonaceae: several species, including the English sorrel (R. acetosa) and the more slender-leaved French sorrel (R. scutatus) See also wood sorrel Example sentencesExamples - There is food if you know where to find it: clusters of mussels and clumps of wild mountain sorrel.
- Along the way we stopped as I spotted dock and sorrel and the broad leaves of plantain beneath our horse's hooves.
- Its simple to grow and is closely related to wild dock and sorrel, is classed as a vegetable but treated as a fruit.
- Vegetables were not cultivated, but came in the form of wild carrots, turnip and garlic, along with salad leaves such as sorrel, nettle and dock.
- Together with dill, sorrel and summer savory, parsley was one of the herbs grown in every garden.
- While soil temperatures are still warm, fertilize leafy greens like spinach, corn salad & sorrel so that they have enough nutrients to take them through the fall.
- If you've never grown or tasted French sorrel, now is the time to make its acquaintance.
- If the herb dies back completely, as do parsley, French sorrel, coriander/cilantro, and basil in cold climates, you should remove as many good leaves as you need before they are killed by winter cold.
- Herbs such as wild garlic, sorrel and lamb's tongue grew wild but others like mint, mustard were also grown near the house for daily use.
- Gunn Eriksen had already been approached to write a book of her recipes, which use local produce and unexpected ingredients such as hawthorn, nettle and sorrel.
- There is always room to include Italian and curly parsley, sorrel, salad burnet, mustard, chard, and kale greens.
- It is related to sorrel and wild dock and has been used as a purgative for centuries: the ancient Persians valued it for cleansing the blood and purifying the system.
- Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries.
- My daughter runs by the brief flowers: touch-me-nots among the stones, bluebells and sorrels, solomon's seal.
- They have persuaded us that if you can only start with a perfect sorrel leaf and a few freshly podded peas, the rest will surely follow.
- Fagopyrum esculentum, a plant of the same family as rhubarb, sorrel, and dock, is grown for its seeds; these resemble those of cereals.
- But the beauty of most edible plants - nettles, dandelions, alexanders, fat hen, sorrel - is that they are so prolific they are considered a nuisance.
- Common sorrel or ‘sourocks’, is an underused and under-appreciated herb.
- If you know someone with an established sorrel plant, ask for a small cutting.
- The vegie garden looks pretty sad on a hot day, with only carrots, cherry tomatoes, beetroot, French sorrel, leeks, sweet potato and snake beans able to cope in the sun.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French sorele, of Germanic origin; related to sour. nounˈsôrəlˈsɔrəl 1A horse with a light reddish-brown coat. Example sentencesExamples - Rhysa sat in front of Caleb on her stocky little sorrel, and it carried them both easily.
- Only bays, chestnuts, or sorrels are accepted into the unit and that's only if they pass the training, vet, and farrier evaluations.
- He was cantering down the trail towards them, his bald-faced sorrel kicking up dust.
- It might be said that they saved the best for last because Bergen steered the sorrel gelding to a 227.5 score, to blast ahead in the rein work.
- The knights ride Andalusian crosses of sorrel and bay costumed spectacularly in body and headdress.
- A sorrel and black were tethered nearby and an array of tools was strewn over the ground.
- ‘I've only owned this horse for five months,’ she explained from atop her sorrel gelding, Texs Rain Drop.
- When Custer and staff returned he ordered the saddle taken off his brown horse and put on his favorite sorrel.
- Somehow the sorrel straightened up, surged forward, and proceeded to neatly cross four five-foot fences, an irrigation ditch, a gate, and two hurdles.
- Both were riding horses, the villager on a fat grey pony and the nobleman on a lean sorrel.
- Rhysa halted her big sorrel next to Myrean and her mount and looked out over the town.
- Only a few months later, the handsome sorrel foundered and his bid for a World Championship ended.
- Like any event where you get a mixture of breeds, there were paints, sorrels, bays and palominos… almost anything you could want!
- 1.1usually as modifier A light reddish-brown color.
a sorrel mare with four white socks Example sentencesExamples - You slow down to get a better view and discover a thin, weak, sorrel horse in a small lot.
- I recognized the tribe's leader, Rowan, by his sorrel hair and flanks.
- He tipped his hat and accepted the reins of his sorrel mare from the stable boy.
- Asta was a sorrel mare, chestnut colored, with a flaxen mane and tail.
- The chase had taken ten days, during which Cortez walked at least one hundred twenty miles and rode more than four hundred on brown and sorrel mares.
- Aptly named Stylish And Foxie, the 9-year-old sorrel mare made quick work of the Senior Cutting for a 226 score and the World Championship.
- His dark brown jaw-length hair fell in messy waves in front of his sorrel eyes.
Synonyms hazel, chocolate-coloured, coffee-coloured, cocoa-coloured, nut-brown
Origin Middle English: from Old French sorel, from sor ‘yellowish’, from a Germanic adjective meaning ‘dry’. |