ruderal
See also: rudéral
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from New Latin ruderalis, from Latin rudus (“rubble”).
Noun edit
ruderal (plural ruderals)
- (botany) Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil
- (botany) A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil.
Adjective edit
ruderal (comparative more ruderal, superlative most ruderal)
- (botany) That grows in rubbish or poor soil
- 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:
- 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.
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Translations edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin ruderalis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ruderal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ruderals)
Further reading edit
- “ruderal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish edit
Adjective edit
ruderal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ruderales)
Further reading edit
- “ruderal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014