ruderal

See also: rudéral

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin ruderalis, from 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

Related terms

• ruderalise

Translations

grows in poor soil

• Catalan: ruderal m
• Dutch: ruderaal (nl)
• French: rudéral (fr) m
• Italian: ruderale
• Portuguese: ruderal
• Spanish: ruderal (es)

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin ruderalis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

ruderal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ruderals)

1. ruderal

Further reading

• “ruderal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Spanish

Adjective

ruderal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ruderales)

1. ruderal

Further reading

• “ruderal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28