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woodsorrel

noun

Etymology

From wood + sorrel.

  1. derived from *saus-✻ — “dry, parched”
  2. derived from *sauzaz✻ — “dry”
  3. derived from *saur✻ — “dried”
  4. derived from sor — “yellowish-brown, reddish-brown”
  5. derived from *sorel✻
  6. inherited from *sorel✻
  7. compounded as woodsorrel — “wood + sorrel”

Definitions

  1. Certain species of genus Oxalis or of family Oxalidaceae.

  2. Alternative form of wood sorrel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at woodsorrel. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at woodsorrel. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at woodsorrel

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA