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charlock

NOUN
  1. weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields

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  • It is the first known case of such an occurrence in Britain and overturns previous scientific assumptions that charlock was unlikely to cross-breed with GM oilseed rape.
  • At one test site, researchers found a GM version of the common weed charlock growing in the field, the year after the GM trial.
  • UC Riverside scientists studying the genetic makeup of wild radishes in California have determined that the California wild radish is descended from hybrids between two species: cultivated radish and the weed, jointed charlock. Science press releases
  • So, too, while in our meadows we purposely propagate tender fodder plants, like grasses and clovers, we find on the margins of our pastures and by our roadsides only protected species; such as thistles, houndstongue, cuckoo-pint, charlock, nettles Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
  • Chickweed, charlock (yellow flowers) and runch (white flowers) plants are now big enough to cause some concern.
  • In California, the cultivated radish, Raphanus sativus, and the jointed charlock, R. raphanistrum, have completely merged.
  • He decided to pick it as a centerpiece for his bouquet of marguerites, charlock and cornflowers. Tolstoy's Muslim Hero
  • Be on the lookout for late flushes of annual broadleaved weeds such as cleavers, charlock and polygonums, as the recent rains and open crops are encouraging factors. FWi - All News
  • And the year in which they brought it no more, two Sulphurs, with dresses like sunlight on a charlock-field, came with the rest to the moon-daisies 'Feast; because not once in all their years of marriage had the perfect rose been lacking. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • And he instances these facts to show that the seeds of this charlock, and these dyke plants, had lain dormant in the soil from the time the dykes were built, and the house erected. Life: Its True Genesis
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