Usually means: Thrives in disturbed or harsh environments.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruderal: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruderal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruderal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ruderal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ruderal: Wordnik
  6. ruderal: Wiktionary
  7. ruderal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ruderal: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ruderal: Dictionary.com
  10. Ruderal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ruderal: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  12. ruderal: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. ruderal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruderal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ruderal)

noun:  (botany) Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil
noun:  (botany) A plant tending to volunteer in disturbed soil.
adjective:  (botany) That grows in rubbish or poor soil

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