sorrel

• n. 栗色；栗色毛的动物（等于sorel）；酢浆草属
• adj. 栗色的；红褐色的
• n. (Sorrel)人名；(西、法)索雷尔

词源同 sour,酸的，酸性，-el,小词后缀。因这种植物叶片呈酸性而得名。

1. 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

sorrel

sorrel: see sour

sorrel (adj.)

"reddish brown," especially of horses, mid-14c., from Old French sorel, from sor "yellowish-brown," probably from Frankish *saur "dry," or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sauza- (cognates: Middle Dutch soor "dry," Old High German soren "to become dry," Old English sear "withered, barren;" see sere). Perhaps a diminutive form in French.

sorrel (n.)

small perennial plant, late 14c., from Old French surele (12c., Modern French surelle), from sur "sour," from Frankish *sur or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sura- "sour" (cognates: Old High German, Old English sur "sour;" see sour (adj.)). So called for the taste of its leaves.

The sorrel easily won the race.

那匹栗色马轻易地赢了那场赛马.

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Here he had rooted up the moss and wood sorrel.

在这里,他连根拔起了苔藓和酢浆草.

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Upon a biological level, Sorrel assists with cellular communication.

在一个生物性水平上, 酢浆草协助了细胞通讯.

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