oxalis
[ok-suh-lis, ok-sal-is]
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noun
any plant of the genus Oxalis, comprising the wood sorrels.
Origin of oxalis
1595–1605; < Latin: garden sorrel, sour wine < Greek oxalís, derivative of oxýs sharp
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Lythrum and the trimorphic Oxalis are the most wonderful cases.
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume IICharles Darwin
Have you seeds of Oxalis sensitiva, which I see mentioned in books?
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume IICharles Darwin
Can you spare me a good plant (or even two) of Oxalis sensitiva?
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume IICharles Darwin
Oxalis stricta (yellow wood-sorrel), 1853, at Smith's and his wood-path.
The Maine WoodsHenry David Thoreau
The flowers of all the species of Oxalis, the Wood-sorrel, are very pretty.
Botany for LadiesJane Loudon
oxalis
noun
Word Origin for oxalis
C18: via Latin from Greek: sorrel, sour wine, from oxus acid, sharp
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