Charlock

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  • noun. An annual weed (Sinapis arvensis) in the mustard family, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, having racemes of yellow flowers and hairy stems and foliage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A common name of the wild mustard, Brassica Sinapistrum, a common pest in grain-fields. Also written carlick.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.
  • noun. a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw-colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several yellow-flowered cruciferous weeds of grain fields, especially wild mustard.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields
  • Word Usage
    "Such dry waste places send up plants to flower, such as charlock and poppy, quicker than happens in better soil, but they do not reach nearly the height or size."
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