Meanings
plural sour grasses
- uncountableusuallyA low spreading plant with yellow flowers and clover-like leaves, Oxalis stricta.
Synonyms: yellow woodsorrel, yellow wood sorrel, Oxalis europaea, Oxalis fontana, common yellow woodsorrel, common yellow oxalis, upright yellow-sorrel, lemon clover
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA low spreading plant with yellow flowers and clover-like leaves, Oxalis stricta.
More synonyms by meaning
nounany of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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sour grass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sour%20grass
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