ruderal

Borrowed from New Latin ruderalis, from Latin rudus (“rubble”).

ruderal (plural ruderals)

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

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.

• agrestic

• ruderalise

ruderal (plural ruderales)

1. ruderal

• “ruderal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014