ruderal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin ruderalis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rudus (“rubble”).

Noun

ruderal (plural ruderals)

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

Adjective

ruderal (comparative more ruderal, superlative most ruderal)

1. (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.

Coordinate terms

• agrestic

Translations

grows in poor soil

• Italian: ruderale
• Portuguese: ruderal
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ruderal (es)

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Spanish

Adjective

ruderal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ruderales)

1. ruderal