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ruderal

ruderal noun: any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.

Noun

ruderal (plural ruderals)

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

Adjective

ruderal (comparative more ruderal, superlative most ruderal)

  1. 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.2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead

ruderal meaning in Tamil

ruderal in Tamil

குப்பையில் வளர்கின்ற

Forms of ruderal

Noun
pluralruderals
Adjective
comparativemore ruderal
superlativemost ruderal

Origin of ruderal

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

Words formed from ruderal

Questions about ruderal

What does ruderal mean?
Ruderal means any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.
What is ruderal in Tamil?
Ruderal in Tamil is குப்பையில் வளர்கின்ற. See Ruderal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ruderal?
Ruderal can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of ruderal?
The plural of ruderal is ruderals.

Words near ruderal in the dictionary

  1. Rudens
  2. rudented
  3. rudenture
  4. rudentures
  5. ruder
  6. ruderal
  7. ruderalise
  8. ruderalised
  9. ruderalization
  10. ruderally
  11. ruderals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruderal (page history and authors); ruderal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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