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Definition: Sorrel |
SorrelAdjective1. Of a light brownish color. Noun1. Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis. 2. Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine. 3. 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. 4. Large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces. 5. A horse of a brownish orange to light brown color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Sorrel" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "having a sour quality". |
Date "sorrel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Any acid-leaved plant of the dock family, especially Rumex acetosa, used in salads and for flavouring. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SORREL. A yellowish red. Sorrel pate; one having red hair. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Because of the mildly acidic taste, it quenches thirst, and may be helpful in boosting the appetite. The leaves are edible and may be added to salads to sharpen the taste. They are often pureed in soups and sauces. The plant contains oxalic acid to produce its characteristic flavor, and so may be contraindicated in people with rheumatic-type complaints, kidney or bladder stones, and the like. It is also a laxative.
Classification: Sorrel is a member of the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae.
Sorrel is also used as a color of horses, possibly named after the color of the flower spike of the sorrel herb. It is known as a self color (meaning all of a single color), ranging from reddish gold to deep burgundy. In a sorrel horse, the mane, tail and lower legs are the same color as the rest of the coat, with the exception of possible white markings below the knee or hock. Sorrel is distinguished from palomino, for instance, since a palomino horse has a white mane and tail. It is distinguished from dun by the fact that a dun horse has a darker mane and tail than the rest of its coat, may have bars of darker color on the shoulder and forelegs, and also possesses a narrow, dark line down the middle of the back. A very dark sorrel and a very bright blood bay may look similar except for the black mane, tail and lower legs on the bay. Some sorrel horses are referred to as chestnut and vice-versa, but chestnut, while also a reddish self color, is actually different from sorrel, being more brown in hue.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sorrel."
Synonyms: SorrelSynonyms: brownish-orange (adj), common sorrel (n), dock (n), oxalis (n), red sorrel (n), roselle (n), rozelle (n), sour grass (n), wood sorrel (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sorrel |
| English words defined with "sorrel": Bermuda buttercup, Bilimbing ♦ English-weed ♦ French sorrel ♦ garden sorrel, goat's foot ♦ oca, oka, Oxalic, Oxalis cernua, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis tuberosa ♦ red sorrel, Rumex acetosa ♦ Salt of lemons, Salt of sorrel, Salts of lemon, sensitive plant, sheep sorrel, Sorel, sour dock ♦ Tree sorrel, Trout-colored. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sorrel": Oxalis ♦ Sorrage, Surmullet. (references) |
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 | Wood sorrel, Oxalis. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Sheep Sorrel or Red Sorrel (Rumex acetosella) near Upper Trail Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | Wood Sorrel (Oxaus Oregana). Credit: D. Smurthwaite. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Being one day abroad with my protector, the sorrel nag, and the weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a river that was near. |
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| "Sorrel" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.77% of the time. "Sorrel" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 55.77% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.5% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.73% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sorrel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sorrel | Last name | 170 | 45,352 |
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Expressions using "sorrel": common sorrel ♦ common wood sorrel ♦ creeping wood sorrel ♦ french sorrel ♦ garden sorrel ♦ Jamaica sorrel ♦ mountain sorrel ♦ red sorrel ♦ salt of sorrel ♦ salts of sorrel ♦ sheep sorrel ♦ sheep's sorrel ♦ sorrel tree ♦ Tree sorrel ♦ vine sorrel ♦ violet wood sorrel ♦ wood sorrel. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "sorrel": sorrel-and-green. | |
Containing "sorrel": wood-sorrel family. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sorrel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Qimekuq (fulvous, red-headed), Lëpjetë (dock), Kalë Dori. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرس أسمر محمر, لون أسمر, حميض (oxalis), الحماض. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Киселец, Тригодишен Лопатар, "орест Кон, "орест. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 色. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Zahnìdlý, Ryšavý (ginger, redhead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | syre (acid), moerkeroed hest (sorrel horse), almindelig syre (common sorrel, garden sorrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zuring (dock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | rumekso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | reyðbrúnur, morreyður (brown), hømilia (dock), grágulur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suolaheinät, vaaleanpunarautias (sorrel horse), rautias hevonen (sorrel horse), niittysuolaheinä (common sorrel, garden sorrel), hierakat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Roux, oseille commune (common sorrel, garden sorrel), oseille (common sorrel, garden sorrel), grande oseille (common sorrel, garden sorrel), chat abyssin roux, Brun Rouge, bai, Alezan Clair, alezan brûlé (sorrel horse), abyssin roux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | surk (dock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sauerampfer, Ampfer (dock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οξαλίδα (garden sorrel, oxalis, wood sorrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Sóska, vörösessárga ló, rőt (foxy, red, reddish, russety, rusty, tawny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Acetosa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 밤색. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shughlaig (sharp dock), jiarg-ruy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orrelsay lazão torrado (sorrel horse), lazão queimado (sorrel horse), gamo com três anos, cor de canela (cinnamon), baio (bay, bay horse), azeda, alazão (chestnut). (various references) Roib (alezan, chestnut), Roşu (ablush, aglow, blood red, blushing, carroty, color, colour, copper-colored, copper-coloured, florid, fox-colored, fox-coloured, foxy, hearts, incarnadine, lurid, red, red-cheeked, rouge, scarlet), Roşcat (carroty, fox-colored, fox-coloured, foxy, red haired, reddish, russet), Murg (roan), Mãcriş (dock), Cal Murg (bay). (various references) Щавель, "недой. (various references) sealbhag (wood sorrel), samh (a clownish person, a god, the smell of the air in a close room), sabh (ointment), puinneag (sucker). (various references) riđast, riđan, kiseljak, alatast. (various references) Alazán. (various references) Syra (acid, dock), Rödbrun (auburn, bay, foxy, gingery, maroon, redbrown, red-brown, russet). (various references) สีน้ำตาลแ"งอ่อน. (various references) Kuzukulağı, Kula At, Kızıl Kahverengi (foxy, golden brown, mahogany, russet), Doru At (bay horse), Al Donlu At. (various references) зypar (red). (various references) Квасениця, Щавель, "нідий Кінь, "нідий. (various references) có m u nâu đỏ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | rumex. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sorrel": sorrels. (additional references) | |
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"Sorrel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: correl, Gorrell, Orrel, Scorel, Serel, Serrault, Serrell, Shorwell, sirel, Skrela, soirre, soral, soreal, Sorella, Sorelle, soriel, sorle, sororel, sorre, sorred, sorrell, sorrid, sorul, surrell, survel, sworel, Torrel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sorrel" (pronounced sô"rul) |
| 5 | s ô" r u l | Sorel. |
| 4 | -ô" r u l | amoral, aural, auroral, Balmoral, boral, choral, coral, floral, goral, immoral, laurel, Loral, moral, oral, quarrel. |
| 3 | -r u l | ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, austral, barrel, Beryl, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, feral, gambrel, imperil, integral, intramural, minstrel, mistral, mitral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, orchestral, peril, plural, rural, scoundrel, several, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: lores, loser, orles, roles, sorel, sorer. | |
-2 letters: eros, errs, lore, lose, oles, ores, orle, roes, role, rose, sloe, sole, sore. | |
-3 letters: els, err, ers, oes, ole, ore, ors, ose, res, roe, sel, ser, sol. | |
-4 letters: el, er, es, lo, oe, or, os, re, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: lorries, rerolls, rolfers, rollers, sorrels. | |
+2 letters: broilers, carolers, colorers, corulers, floorers, growlers, laborers, lorimers, loriners, prowlers, pyrroles, realtors, recolors, relators, resolder, resolver, restoral, roseolar, solderer, stroller, trollers. | |
+3 letters: armorless, bolsterer, carollers, carrioles, carrousel, chortlers, clamorers, colourers, deplorers, enrollers, errorless, explorers, flavorers, flowerers, frivolers, grovelers, horribles, implorers, labourers, loiterers, lowriders, orderless, orderlies, overlords, overrules, premolars, profilers, rearousal, recoilers, reenrolls, reflowers, reloaders, reprovals, rerollers, resolders, resoluter, resolvers, restorals, retailors, revolters, revolvers, rollovers, rostellar, slobberer, snorkeler, solderers, strollers, troublers, trowelers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 72 72 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-. .-. . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o r r e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0072 0072 0065 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538184847178 |
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