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Definition of Charlock

1. Noun. Weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields.

Definition of Charlock

1. n. A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.

Definition of Charlock

1. Noun. Any of several yellow-flowered cruciferous weeds of grain fields, especially wild mustard. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Charlock

1. a troublesome weed [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charlock

Literary usage of Charlock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ortotteri agrari cioè dei diversi insetti dell'ordine degli ortotteri nocivi by Eleanor Anne Ormerod, Adolfo Targioni-Tozzetti (1878)
"charlock. Observations regarding prevalence of charlock after wet seasons, ... As it turned out my farm was overrun with charlock, the legacies of the last ..."

2. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"The most common adulterants of mustard, other than excess of hulls, are wheat, rice, millet, turmeric, charlock and other weed seeds. ..."

3. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"charlock. Grain fields, both of the Old and New World, are often infested by ... charlock is especially abundant in the grain fields of the Northwest. ..."

4. Food: Its Adulterations, and the Methods for Their Detection by Arthur Hill Hassall (1876)
"... could detect charlock seed mixed with mustard, even with the microscope. ... minute «Ik: these are very characteristic of the seeds of charlock (tig. ..."

5. Letters on the Elements of Botany: Addressed to a Lady by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Martyn (1787)
"charlock does not grow more than two feet in height; the leaves, which are alfo rough, ... charlock ..."

6. The Chemical Trade Journal and Oil, Paint and Colour Review (1900)
"The uniform experience was that charlock or runch, sprayed with a proper quantity of solution, before, during, or immediately after wet weather, ..."

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