Starve-acre
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Starve-acre is a noun meaning A type of crowfoot Ranunculus arvensis, known for growing on impoverished soil.
Meaning
A type of crowfoot Ranunculus arvensis, known for growing on impoverished soil.
More Meanings
- Pertaining to or characteristic of unproductive, impoverished soil.
Example Sentences
There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place.
They'd grown up together, had seen a lot of life, and were mostly inseparable, through six decades of raven, starve-acre days.
It is quite common for farmers to use cereal grains for seed which contain weed seeds, e.g. starve-acre (ranunculus arvensis), docks, wild oats, rye-like brome (bromus secolinus), etc.
I suggest that he was instead thinking about his birthplace, where, for a while, those infants did live to inherit the earth, at least the mined-out, falling-down, starve-acre part of it that was the town of Hailey.
Word Forms
- starveacre
- stave-acre
- stave acre
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include starveacre, hungerweed, crowfoot, ranunculus, buttercup, crakeberry.
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