wood sorreln.

Brit.

/ˈwʊd ˌsɒrəl/,

/ˈwʊd ˌsɒrl̩/, U.S.

/ˈwʊd ˌsɔrəl/

Etymology: < wood n.¹ + sorrel n.¹, after Anglo-Norman sorrel de boys (see sorrel n.¹ 3a); superseding wood-sour n.: so called from the sour taste of the leaves, resembling sorrel.

a. The common name of Oxalis Acetosella, a low-growing woodland plant having delicate trifoliate leaves and small white flowers streaked with purple, appearing in spring.

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sorrel de boysa1400

wood-soura1400

hallelujahc1425

cuckoobread1526

cuckoo's meat1526

wood sorrel1526

stubwort1541

sour trefoil1578

stobwort1597

salad sorrel1611

French sorrel1633

three-leaved grass1634

stab-wort1640

lujula1651

oxalis1706

goat's foot1787

sour grass1866

sour-sop1885

soursob1907

1526 Grete Herball l. sig. Cvj/2 De Alleluya: Wood sorell or cukowes meate.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xliii. 502 Woode Sorrel is a lowe or base herbe, without stalkes.

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 192 I took a good quantity of mithridate and wood-sorrel.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 166 Wood sorrel,..being boiled up with it [sc. milk], and coagulating, the whole is put into casks..and kept under ground to be eaten in winter [in Lapland].

1888 T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (ed. 2) I. ii. 42 The first appearance of cuckoo or swallow, of wood sorrel or anemone.

1899 R. Bridges Idle Flowers vii Woodsorrel's pencilled veil.

b. Applied with defining words to other species of Oxalis; also in the West Indies to species of Begonia.

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1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. I. 201 The yellow wood sorrel, or Oxalis corniculata.

1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 49 The Oxalis crenata, or Notched Wood-sorrel, a tuberous-rooted esculent, cultivated in Peru under the name of Oca.

1858 A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 754 Oxalis stricta,..Upright Yellow Wood-sorrel.

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787/2 Sorrel, wood, Begonia acutifolia.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wood sorrel
释义	wood sorreln. Brit. /ˈwʊd ˌsɒrəl/, /ˈwʊd ˌsɒrl̩/, U.S. /ˈwʊd ˌsɔrəl/ Etymology: < wood n.¹ + sorrel n.¹, after Anglo-Norman sorrel de boys (see sorrel n.¹ 3a); superseding wood-sour n.: so called from the sour taste of the leaves, resembling sorrel. a. The common name of Oxalis Acetosella, a low-growing woodland plant having delicate trifoliate leaves and small white flowers streaked with purple, appearing in spring. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Oxalidaceae (wood-sorrel and allies) > [noun] sorrel de boysa1400 wood-soura1400 hallelujahc1425 cuckoobread1526 cuckoo's meat1526 wood sorrel1526 stubwort1541 sour trefoil1578 stobwort1597 salad sorrel1611 French sorrel1633 three-leaved grass1634 stab-wort1640 lujula1651 oxalis1706 goat's foot1787 sour grass1866 sour-sop1885 soursob1907 1526 Grete Herball l. sig. Cvj/2 De Alleluya: Wood sorell or cukowes meate. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xliii. 502 Woode Sorrel is a lowe or base herbe, without stalkes. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 192 I took a good quantity of mithridate and wood-sorrel. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 166 Wood sorrel,..being boiled up with it [sc. milk], and coagulating, the whole is put into casks..and kept under ground to be eaten in winter [in Lapland]. 1888 T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (ed. 2) I. ii. 42 The first appearance of cuckoo or swallow, of wood sorrel or anemone. 1899 R. Bridges Idle Flowers vii Woodsorrel's pencilled veil. b. Applied with defining words to other species of Oxalis; also in the West Indies to species of Begonia. ΚΠ 1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. I. 201 The yellow wood sorrel, or Oxalis corniculata. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 49 The Oxalis crenata, or Notched Wood-sorrel, a tuberous-rooted esculent, cultivated in Peru under the name of Oca. 1858 A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 754 Oxalis stricta,..Upright Yellow Wood-sorrel. 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787/2 Sorrel, wood, Begonia acutifolia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1526
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