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- noun
sorrel - noun a species of
crabgrass , Digitaria insularis
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's easy to talk about courage when you're sitting at the table, sharing a bottle of sourgrass ale with your husband; it's something else again when you find yourself the target of an armored hovercraft loaded with enough rockets to take out a small town.
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Raising his hand, he brought his people to a halt, then crouched low and peered through the sourgrass.
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At first he didn't see anything -- sourgrass as high as his chest, spider bush snarled along the edge of the water, a few trees in the background -- and then something moved, and he saw a boid looking straight at him.
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The foliage gets its sour tang (sourgrass is another name for O. pes-caprae) from oxalic acid, also found in spinach, true sorrel, rhubarb and other foods.
hernesheir commented on the word sourgrass
Common southern lawn weed in the genus Oxalis.
September 17, 2009