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ruderal

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

noun ruderals

Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.
A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil.

adjective more ruderal · most ruderal

That grows in rubbish or poor soil. 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.

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adj grows in poor soil

Español	ruderal
Português	ruderal
Français	rudéral
Italiano	ruderale

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@misc{ruderal_2026,
  title = {ruderal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ruderal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}