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stave acre

stave acre is the alternative form of starve-acre.

stave acre is the alternative form of stave-acre.

Meaning of starve-acre

Noun

starve-acre (uncountable)

  1. A type of crowfoot Ranunculus arvensis, known for growing on impoverished soil.
    • Some sandy soils are much overrun with the wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), provincially called " rump," while the clays are swarmed with starve-acre (Ranunculus arvensis), and the clivers or burrs (Galium aparine), which are very troublesome to separate from the grain when winnowed.1855, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page 207

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Meaning of stave-acre

Noun

stave-acre (uncountable)

  1. A medicinal herb, Staphis agria.
    • Th' infectious scab, arising from extremes Of want or surfeit, is by water cur'd Of lime, or sodden stave-acre, or oil Dispersive of Norwegian tar, renown'd By virtuous Berkeley.=1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper

Questions about stave acre

What is stave acre the alternative form of?
Stave acre is the alternative form of starve-acre.

Words near stave acre in the dictionary

  1. staus
  2. Stauth
  3. Stavanger
  4. stavaroside
  5. stave
  6. stave acre
  7. stave church
  8. stave churches
  9. stave in
  10. stave off
  11. stave rhyme

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