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ruderal en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rūderālis, from Latin rūdus (“rubble”).

Meanings

1. That grows in rubbish or poor soil.
   • Rafinesque perfected his variant of this honorable philosophy while botanizing in the literal backyards of my childhood, examining ruderal plants I've known all my life, and so I have appropriated it from him, with minor tweaks. 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:

Forms

Coordinates

agrestic

Deriveds

ruderally

Relateds

ruderalise

Translations (6)

it ruderale (grows in poor soil) · pt ruderal (grows in poor soil) · fr rudéral (grows in poor soil) · nl ruderaal (grows in poor soil) · ca ruderal (grows in poor soil) · es ruderal (grows in poor soil)

ruderal en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rūderālis, from Latin rūdus (“rubble”).

Meanings

1. Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.
2. A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil.

Forms