ruderal

Apr. 11th, 2013 07:57 am
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ruderal (ROO-dur-al) - adj., (of a plant) growing in waste ground or disturbed soil.


The sort of plant that volunteers in construction areas and after landslides. Coined around 1860 from Latin rudus, rubble.

---L.
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