释义 |
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.
1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 638 Other [bees] again are altogether wilde, uplandish, and agrestial. 1842Fraser's Mag. Sept. 298/1 A vast accession of richly productive agrestial territory. 1855Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XVI. 584 A large farmer..seems to have been afflicted by..a sense of agrestial invasion. |