agrestial, a.
(əˈgrɛstɪəl)
[f. L. agresti-s (see agrest) + -al1. Cf. celesti-al.]
Inhabiting the fields or open country; wild; spec. (Bot.) growing wild in cultivated land.
| 1607 Topsell Serpents (1653) 638 Other [bees] again are altogether wilde, uplandish, and agrestial. 1842 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 298/1 A vast accession of richly productive agrestial territory. 1855 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XVI. 584 A large farmer..seems to have been afflicted by..a sense of agrestial invasion. |