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Definition of Oxalis
1. Noun. Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Oxalis
Specialized synonyms: Common Wood Sorrel, Cuckoo Bread, Oxalis Acetosella, Shamrock, Bermuda Buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis Cernua, Oxalis Pes-caprae, Creeping Oxalis, Creeping Wood Sorrel, Oxalis Corniculata, Goat's Foot, Goatsfoot, Oxalis Caprina, Oxalis Violacea, Violet Wood Sorrel, Oca, Oka, Oxalis Crenata, Oxalis Tuberosa
Definition of Oxalis
1. n. A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.
Definition of Oxalis
1. Noun. (gardening) Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus ''Oxalis'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oxalis
1. a flowering plant [n -ALISES] : OXALIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Oxalis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxalis
Literary usage of Oxalis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"oxalis stricta Linne.—Yellow Wood-Sorrel, Sheep-Sorrel. Description. ... This salt
was formerly extracted from certain species of oxalis and was sold under ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1901)
"ROOTING OF oxalis LEAVES. BY JOHN L. SHELDON. WHILE weeding a tray of seedling
ferns last winter, I suppose that I broke off some of the leaves of a common ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1815)
"Willd. Sp. PL 2. p. 797. Hort. Kew. cd. alt. 3. p. 128. oxalis ... of oxalis was
communicated from the ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Its leaves all grow from the rootstock, a long leafstalk bearing three obovate
leaflets, the scape a VIOLET WOOD BORREL (OxaliS single flower. ..."
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