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单词 agrestial
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agrestialadj.

Brit. /əˈɡrɛstɪəl/, U.S. /əˈɡrɛstʃ(ə)l/, /əˈɡrɛstiəl/
Forms: 1600s agrestiall, 1600s 1800s– agrestial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin agrestis , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin agrestis (see agrest adj.) + -al suffix1; compare -ial suffix. Compare earlier agrest adj. and later agrestal adj.
Now rare.
1. Inhabiting fields or open country; wild; spec. (of plants) = agrestal adj.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in relation to habitat > [adjective]
fieldya1382
waterya1382
agrestial1608
subterranean1638
lucifugous1654
nemoral1656
subcutaneous1664
subterraneous1832
subtidal1852
xylophilous1862
xerophilous1863
acid-loving1870
aerobic1878
aerobian1879
aerobious1879
aerobiotic1880
subaquatic1880
aerophilous1885
facultative1887
pelagic1887
aerophile1888
autotrophic1893
heterotrophic1893
plastic1893
thermophilic1894
thermophil1896
mesophilic1897
halolimnic1898
polybathic1898
tolerant1898
limnetic1899
thermophilous1899
metatrophic1900
mixotrophic1900
paratrophic1900
mesophilous1901
benthic1902
epibenthic1902
eurybathic1902
microaerophilic1903
sympatric1904
benthoal1905
cryophile1907
benthonic1909
microaerophile1909
lenitic1916
lotic1916
psychrotolerant1924
oligosaprobic1925
polysaprobic1925
aerophilic1929
saprobic1932
primary1934
lentic1935
chemoautotrophic1936
eurytopic1937
psammic1938
saprotrophic1942
prototrophic1946
chemolithoautotrophic1949
auxotrophic1950
chemolithotrophic1953
chemoorganotrophic1953
opportunist1956
psychrophile1956
psychrophilic1958
opportunistic1960
psychrotrophic1960
oligosaprobe1990
the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [adjective] > growing in cultivated land
agrestal1847
agrarian1851
agral1866
agrestial1885
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.
2. Agricultural; rural; cf. agrarian adj. 3.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective]
fieldena1425
rustic?1440
citylessc1450
champestrea1492
rural?a1500
rustical1542
agrestc1550
predial1592
champestrial1612
agrestic1617
agrestical1623
agrested1650
upland1654
countrified1756
agrestian1812
country1827
mofussil1828
agrestial1840
landward1844
bucolic1846
out-country1939
land-bound1972
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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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