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charlock

[ chahr-luhk ]

noun

  1. a wild mustard, Brassica kaber, having lobed, ovate leaves and clusters of small, yellow flowers, often troublesome as a weed in grainfields.


charlock

/ ˈtʃɑːlɒk /

noun

  1. Also calledwild mustard a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber ), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  2. white charlock
    Also calledwild radishrunchrʌntʃ a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of charlock1

before 1000; Middle English cherlok, Old English cerlic < ?
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Word History and Origins

Origin of charlock1

Old English cerlic, of obscure origin
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Example Sentences

I focused on the flora, here more rye mixed with charlock, and more lady’s bedstraw and wild carrot.

The earth was soft and crumbling, with a scattering of the weeds that are found in cultivated fields—fumitory, charlock, pimpernel and mayweed, all growing in the green gloom under the bean leaves.

The summer sun has pulverized and consumed all vegetation, and, but for a few chance patches of thistles, charlock or aramagos, there is nothing that can screen the birds from view.

So I off-saddled and knee-haltered the horse, for there was no oat-hay in the shed for him, and he had to get what picking he could from the old lands, yellow with charlock.

He had purposely selected a way that took them across many of young Whitmarsh’s ill-stocked fields, fields in which sedge and charlock wrote an indictment of neglected drains and half-hearted tillage.

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