Usually means: Sour, edible plant; reddish horse.
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  1. sorrel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sorrel: Merriam-Webster
  3. sorrel, sorrel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sorrel, sorrel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sorrel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sorrel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sorrel, sorrel: Wordnik
  8. sorrel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sorrel: Wiktionary
  10. sorrel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sorrel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sorrel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sorrel: Dictionary.com
  14. sorrel (adj.), sorrel (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sorrel (disambiguation), Sorrel (drink), Sorrel (horse), Sorrel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sorrel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sorrel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sorrel: Rhymezone
  19. Sorrel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sorrel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sorrel: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sorrel: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. sorrel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sorrel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. sorrel: Encyclopedia

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  3. sorrel: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. sorrel: Medical dictionary

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  1. SORREL: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sorrel, Sorrel, Sorrel, Sorrel, Sorrel, Sorrel, Sorrel, Sorrel, Sorrel: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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  1. sorrel: Urban Dictionary

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  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
noun:  Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
noun:  Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
noun:  The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
noun:  A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
noun:  A brown colour, with a tint of red.
adjective:  Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)
noun:  A female given name.

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