Sheep-sorrel
noun
1.
a slender weed, Rumex acetosella, of the buckwheat family, found in poor, dry soils, having arrow-shaped leaves with an acid taste.
sheep sorrel
noun
1.
a polygonaceous plant, Rumex acetosella, of the N hemisphere, having slightly bitter-tasting leaves and small reddish flowers
Read Also:
- Sheep station
noun 1. (Austral & NZ) a large sheep farm Also called run
- Sheepswool-sponge
[sheeps-woo l] /ˈʃipsˌwʊl/ noun 1. wool sponge.
- Sheeptick
noun 1. a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- Sheepwalk
noun, British. 1. a tract of land on which sheep are pastured. noun 1. (mainly Brit) a tract of land for grazing sheep
- Sheer
adjective, sheerer, sheerest. 1. transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings. 2. unmixed with anything else: We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock. 3. unqualified; utter: sheer nonsense. 4. extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical: a sheer descent of rock. 5. British Obsolete. bright; shining. adverb 6. clear; completely; quite: […]