2. Noun. (botany) A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil. ¹
3. Adjective. (botany) That grows in rubbish or poor soil ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruderal
1. a plant growing in poor land [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ruderal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruderal
Literary usage of Ruderal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
"Indicators of native or ruderal forage crops.—The detailed study of secondary
seres in fallow fields and similar disturbed areas has revealed a number of ..."
2. Research Methods in Ecology by Frederic Edward Clements (1905)
"Elsewhere the usual successions are established, and the ruderal formation ...
In mountain and desert regions, where ruderal piants are rare or lacking, ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"60) and occurs on land exhibiting the environmental conditions that favor that
association, breaking will result first in a ruderal or weed stage composed ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"ruderal PLANTS (from Lat. rudus, rubbish ). Plants of roadsides and waste places.
Close observation of ruderal areas shows that there is a rapid order of ..."
5. Phytogeography of Nebraska: I. General Survey by Roscoe Pound, Frederic Edward Clements (1900)
"Others, as Chenopodium, consist almost wholly of ruderal species, while still
others, as Polygonum and Rumex, are represented by several ruderal species, ..."
6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Often there are ruderal associations, such as those that develop on cultivated
land that is left fallow. The pioneer associations that follow in man's ..."
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