Definition of Oxalis crenata

1. Noun. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.

Exact synonyms: Oca, Oka, Oxalis Tuberosa
Generic synonyms: Oxalis, Sorrel, Wood Sorrel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxalis Crenata

Owen
Owen's lines
Owen Glendower
Owen Wister
Owenian
Owenite
Owenites
Owens
Owensboro
Oxalidaceae
Oxalis acetosella
Oxalis caprina
Oxalis cernua
Oxalis corniculata
Oxalis crenata (current term)
Oxalis pes-caprae
Oxalis tuberosa
Oxalis violacea
Oxandra
Oxandra lanceolata
Oxbridge
Oxbridgian
Oxfam
Oxford
Oxford English
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University
Oxford blue
Oxford comma

Literary usage of Oxalis crenata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"... tanière: also a name for the acid tubers of Oxalis crenata growing In tlie mountains of South America, which, after exposure to light, ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Several species have tuberous roots, and are cultivated on account of their tubers, as Oxalis crenata and Oxalis tube- roua, natives of Peru and Bolivia, ..."

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