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Translingual
Etymology
Latin ruderalis
Adjective
ruderalis
- A species descriptor.
1776, P. S. Pallas Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs in einem ausführlichen Auszuge. Erster Theil (in German), page 146:Hingegen war in dieser ganzen Gegend und bis an die Bäche Soroka, das gemeine Kali und der Ceratocarpus an deren Wegen nicht zu sehen, sondern die Fahrgleise an deren Stelle mit dem Wegbreit (Polygonum auiculare,) Wermuth und stinkendem Lepidio ruderali bewachsen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
rūdus, rūder- (“rubble, debris”) + -ālis
Adjective
rūderālis (neuter rūderāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (biology, New Latin) Pertaining to rubble, or post-catastrophic re-colonization.
- M. B. Borkhausen, Tentamen dispositionis Plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum novam methodum a stanium situ et proportione; cum characteribus generum essentialibus. opus posthumum, 1809, p. 60:
- In Lepidio ruderali semper duas tantum antheras inveni, rudimenta autem filamentorum reliquorum mihi adesse videbantur.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants