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wood sorrel
noun
- any of numerous plants of the genus Oxalis, especially O. acetosella, of Eurasia, having heart-shaped, trifoliolate leaves and white, pink-veined flowers.
wood sorrel
noun
- a Eurasian plant, Oxalis acetosella, having trifoliate leaves, an underground creeping stem, and white purple-veined flowers: family Oxalidaceae
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The violet wood-sorrel is, however, the beauty of the family, and rare enough to require being searched for.
George and Lettie crushed the veined belles of wood-sorrel and broke the silken mosses.
He found the wood-sorrel, he measured the crosiers of the brake, and saw the blue mist of the hyacinth carpet the glades.
Another tiny flower is very much like mother's treasured pink oxalis; but is only the bloom of wood sorrel.
Wood-sorrel lifts its delicate veined petals; the leaf is rounded like the shadow of a bubble on a stone under clear water.
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