| 单词 | sorrel |
| 释义 | sorrel (once / 3418 pages) 1n 2nadj If you have a reddish-brown horse, you can call it a sorrel. If your favorite riding boots are the same color as your horse, you can describe them as sorrel too. The word sorrel is a homograph with two distinct meanings and wordways into English. You can go for either the reddish brown color (or a horse that's got it) on the one hand, or any of various plants with sour juice. Both words came via French, and are ultimately from different Germanic roots. The color sorrel comes from sor, "yellowish-brown" in Middle French, while the horse of the same name might more commonly be described as "chestnut." WORD FAMILYsorrel: sorrels USAGE EXAMPLESFresh sorrel and pickled turnips added welcome astringency to the cheese and potato-filled dumplings, tinted ruby-red with beet juice. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) Lee had high regard for his horse, and it’s still revered by many, as is Little Sorrel, Jackson’s war horse. Seattle Times(Nov 13, 2016) Although it gets treated like a grain similar to rice, buckwheat is actually a fruit seed that is related to rhubarb and sorrel. US News(Oct 06, 2016) 1 1n 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 Syn|Hyper Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle hibiscus any plant of the genus Hibiscus 2n large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces Syn|Hyper common sorrel green, greens, leafy vegetable any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables 3n any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine Syn|Hypo|Hyper dock, sour grass Rumex acetosa, garden sorrel, sour dock European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens Rumex acetosella, sheep sorrel, sheep's sorrelsmall plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places Rumex obtusifolius, bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, yellow dockEuropean dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America French sorrel, Rumex scutatus, garden sorrellow perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 4n any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper oxalis, wood sorrel Oxalis acetosella, common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, shamrock Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis cernua, Oxalis pes-capraeSouth African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers Oxalis corniculata, creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrelcreeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan Oxalis caprina, goat's foot, goatsfootshort-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers Oxalis violacea, violet wood sorrelperennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa, oca, okaSouth American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 1n a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color Hyper Equus caballus, horse solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times 2adj of a light brownish color Syn brownish-orange chromatic being or having or characterized by hue |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。