jointed charlock
- noun
- UK
:
rábano silvestre
- The field was overrun with jointed charlock, crowding out the young crops.
Examples
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I recognized the yellow blooms of jointed charlock growing by the riverbank.
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Gardeners often struggle to control the spread of jointed charlock in fertile soil.
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The jointed charlock is often found in fields.
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Farmers in Europe often struggle with jointed charlock in their crops.
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Gardeners often struggle to control the spread of jointed charlock in fertile soil.
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I recognized the yellow blooms of jointed charlock growing by the riverbank.
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The field was overrun with jointed charlock, crowding out the young crops.
Synonyms
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9.9
A wild plant like mustard with yellow, white, or purple flowers often seen as a weed
A wild radish plant with yellow, white, or purple flowers and seed pods that often grows as a weed
A plant like a radish with yellow or pale purple flowers and long seed pods
A wild plant with yellow flowers that grows among crops and is often a weed
A weed that grows in grain fields and harms crops
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'jointed' describes a characteristic and 'charlock' names a mustard-family weed, so the meaning is simply a charlock that is jointed. This descriptive, non-idiomatic composition follows common noun-modifier patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Jointed charlock comes from the way the plant looks. One common idea is that charlock was an old word for 'wild mustard' and jointed describes the stem's visible joints and seed pods, so the name tells you it is a common 'weed' with mustard-like flowers and seed pods.