ruderal

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

ruderal (plural ruderals)

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

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.

• agrestic

• ruderalise

Learned borrowing from New Latin ruderalis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ru.ðəˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ru.ðeˈɾal]

ruderal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ruderals)

1. ruderal

• “ruderal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from French ruderal.

ruderal m or n (feminine singular ruderală, masculine plural ruderali, feminine and neuter plural ruderale)

1. ruderal

• ruderal in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /rudeˈɾal/ [ru.ð̞eˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ru‧de‧ral

ruderal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ruderales)

1. ruderal

• “ruderal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024