"starve-acre" meaning in English

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          "text": "Some sandy soils are much overrun with the wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), provincially called \" rump,\" while the clays are swarmed with starve-acre (Ranunculus arvensis), and the clivers or burrs (Galium aparine), which are very troublesome to separate from the grain when winnowed.",
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          "text": "It seems that a particularly tiresome form of rauunculus, well described by the nickname of “starve-acre,\" can be cxterminated with dressings of sulphate of ammonia, and that this method is equally efficacious in ridding land of the picturesque but unprofitable poppy. Where there is more starve-acre than grass, the farmer pays twice his nominal rent, and is otherwise wasting money by growing weeds on his pasture.",
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          "text": "They'd grown up together, had seen a lot of life, and were mostly inseparable, through six decades of raven, starve-acre days.",
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          "text": "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.",
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