Starveacre

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of starve-acre. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "Starveacre is most injured when spraying is not done until the weed has just begun to flower, when the plants are usually killed outright."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of starve-acre. alt-of, alternative

    "Broken only by brief, grudging truces and attended since the middle of the century by periodic visitations of plague and famine, the long war had almost completely stripped their rocky, starveacre land of what little wealth it possessed."

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hungerweed

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"Starveacre is most injured when spraying is not done until the weed has just begun to flower, when the plants are usually killed outright."

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