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Noun: sour grass
  1. Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
    "Children often chewed on sour grass for its tart flavour";
    - dock, sorrel

Derived forms: sour grasses

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Rumex, Rumex

Encyclopedia: Sour grass