Definitions for Oxalis

Oxalis ox·a·lis

Spelling: [ok-suh-lis, ok-sal-is]
IPA: /ˈɒk sə lɪs, ɒkˈsæl ɪs/

Oxalis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in Oxalis (ailosx).

Definitions for Oxalis

noun

  1. 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

Examples for Oxalis

Yellow wood-sorrel (oxalis) was here, of course, as it was everywhere.

For a hanging-basket use the oxalis, of which there are many beautiful varieties.

Lythrum and the trimorphic oxalis are the most wonderful cases.

Wood-sorrel (oxalis acetosella) was known as cuckoo-sorrel by the Saxons.

oxalis stricta (yellow wood-sorrel), 1853, at Smith's and his wood-path.

The flowers of all the species of oxalis, the Wood-sorrel, are very pretty.

Can you spare me a good plant (or even two) of oxalis sensitiva?

It has obtained the name of oxalic acid, from the generic name of the plant, oxalis acetosella.

Have you seeds of oxalis sensitiva, which I see mentioned in books?

Does oxalis corniculata present exactly the same varieties under very different climates?

Word Value for Oxalis
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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