wood sorrel

See also: woodsorrel and wood-sorrel

English

wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella)

Alternative forms

• woodsorrel, wood-sorrel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdˌsɒɹəl/

Noun

wood sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural wood sorrels)

1. A white-flowered, edible woodland plant, Oxalis acetosella.
   • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13:

     James learned to chew the wood sorrel for its acid flavour, to watch for its flowers closing on approach of rain, and found where the rare bird's-nest orchid grew.

2. Any of several other species of the genus Oxalis.

Synonyms

• cuckoo bread

Hyponyms

• common wood sorrel

Translations

Oxalis acetosella

• Basque: basoetako mingotsa
• Bulgarian: зайчи киселец m (zajči kiselec)
• Catalan: pa de cucut de bosc m
• Danish: skovsyre (da) c
• Dutch: witte klaverzuring (nl) m
• Esperanto: okzalo
• Faroese: skarðssýrusmæra f
• Finnish: käenkaali (fi), ketunleipä (fi)
• Galician: trevo acedo m, aleluia f, pan de cuco m
• German: Waldsauerklee m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὀξύς f (oxús)

• Ingrian: jäniksensoolaheinä
• Irish: seamair choille f
• Italian: acetosella (it) f
• Japanese: 小深山傍食 (こみやまかたばみ, komiyama katabami)
• Macedonian: кисе́лица f (kisélica)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjøkesyre, kløversyre f, siris m, skogsyre f, syreblad n, søtsyre f, vaffelhjerte n (and more)

  Nynorsk: gauksyre f, gaukesyre f, gaukegras n, gaukvaffel m, syreblom m (and more)

• Polish: szczawik zajęczy m
• Portuguese: acetosela f, azedinha f, aleluia (pt) f
• Romanian: măcrișul-caprei (ro) m, măcrișor m
• Russian: кисли́ца (ru) f (kislíca)
• Slovak: kyslička obyčajná f
• Spanish: aleluya (es)
• Swedish: harsyra (sv) c
• Turkish: ekşi yonca
• Tuvan: чажыл (çajıl)
• Welsh: suran y coed m

plant of the genus Oxalis

• Czech: šťavel m
• Danish: surkløver c
• Dutch: klaverzuring (nl) m
• Finnish: käenkaali (fi)
• German: Sauerklee m
• Japanese: 酢漿草 (ja) (かたばみ, katabami)
• Kazakh: саумалдық (saumaldyq)
• Kikuyu: ndabibi class 9/10
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: аракавуч (arakavuč)

• Polish: szczawik (pl) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Old English: ^{(please verify)} ġēaces sūre f
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} harsyra (sv) c
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} suran y coed

References

• wood sorrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Oxalis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons