garden sorrel

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Noun	1.	garden sorrel - low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves French sorrel, Rumex scutatus French sorrel - greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads sour grass, dock, sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
	2.	garden sorrel - European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens Rumex acetosa, sour dock common sorrel, sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces sour grass, dock, sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

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