1. Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
   "The wood sorrel in her garden had delicate pink blooms";
   - oxalis, sorrel
    
2. Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
   "Wood sorrel carpeted the forest floor with its delicate white flowers"; "wood sorrel spread its delicate leaves across the shaded forest floor";
   - common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, shamrock, Oxalis acetosella

Derived forms: wood sorrels

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Oxalis

Encyclopedia: Wood sorrel