agrestialadj.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 65 Others [sc. bees] againe are altogether wilde, vplandish, and agrestiall.

1885 Nature 8 Jan. 233/1 It has always been maintained that the ruderal and agrestial Old World plants and weeds of cultivation displace the indigenous ones.

1891 Zoe Apr. 32 The European visitor [to the Atlantic States] finds the agrestial and ruderal vegetation largely made up of the weeds of his own fields and waysides.

1942 Brittonia 4 195 It is an agrestial and self-sustaining population morphologically sufficiently distinct from others that it merits this rank.

1840 Colonial Mag. 3 40 With the grievous want of labour it becomes almost impossible to convert such soil to agrestial purposes.

1855 Summer-land 241 Leaning out of the car window these agrestial landscapes..pass in a dreamy diorama across my imagination.

1862 Evening Herald 19 Sept. 4/4 Many of the men..must have in early years followed an agrestial occupation.

1882 A. P. Phayre Internat. Numismata Orientalia III. i. 15 (note) The Telugu serfs or Agrestial slaves are called Málas, a term of doubtful origin.

2008 S. Takács Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, & Matrons 56 The Consualia took place in an ambiguous place neither city nor agrestial land.