agriculturallyadv.
/ˌaɡrᵻˈkʌltʃ(ə)rəli/, /ˌaɡrᵻˈkʌltʃ(ə)rl̩i/, U.S. /ˌæɡrəˈkəltʃ(ə)rəli/ 1. With regard or reference to agriculture; from an agricultural point of view.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [adverb]
agriculturally1820
agronomically1860
1777 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis I. following Pl. 309 Agriculturally considered, we must number it [sc. Sheep's Sorrel] with the weeds.
1820 W. Turner Jrnl. Tour Levant III. 211 The land is all cultivated by Turks, and this is the only place near Constantinople where I have them seen agriculturally industrious.
1883 ‘Holme Lee’ Loving & Serving I. xi. 211 His land is poor agriculturally.
1910 E. Davenport Domesticated Animals & Plants ii. xix. 258 [This] goes to make the legumes, agriculturally speaking, the most distinctive family of plants ever domesticated.
2010 G. Magnus Uprising i. 33 Under the Ming Dynasty..China was a populous and agriculturally fertile country.
2. By, from, or in agriculture; for agricultural purposes.
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1819 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 250/1 The uses of Salt (agriculturally) are, I. The Cure of sour Grass... II. Preventing the Smut in Corn.., and scab in potatoes, [etc.].
1850 Q. Rev. June 171 Lime was used agriculturally by the Romans only in their vineyards and orchards.
1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xiii. 112 By far the most important clover species used agriculturally..are the red clovers (Trifolium pratense ) and the white clovers (T. repens).
1992 CPRE Ann. Rep. 9/1 Parts of the country where there is a problem with contamination of groundwater by agriculturally derived nitrates.
2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields iv. 163 Some of these instances [sc. of measures to control jackdaws]..may well have been agriculturally driven.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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