ruderal

See also: rudéral

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rūderālis, from Latin rūdus (“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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ruderal.

Adjective

ruderal m or n (feminine singular ruderală, masculine plural ruderali, feminine and neuter plural ruderale)

1. ruderal

Declension

Declension of ruderal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	ruderal		ruderală		ruderali	ruderale
	definite	ruderalul		ruderala		ruderalii	ruderalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	ruderal		ruderale		ruderali	ruderale
	definite	ruderalului		ruderalei		ruderalilor	ruderalelor

References

• ruderal in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rudeˈɾal/ [ru.ð̞eˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ru‧de‧ral

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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024