Char-lock
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lək noun
a wild mustard, Brassica kaber, having lobed, ovate leaves and clusters of small, yellow flowers, often troublesome as a weed in grainfields.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English cherlok, Old English cerlic < ?
before 1000; Middle English cherlok, Old English cerlic < ?
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| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: wild mustard a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers) |
| 2. | white charlock, wild radish, Also called runch a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits |
| [Old English cerlic, of obscure origin] | |
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