AGRESTAL Definition & Meaning

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agrestal

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adjective

of or relating to plants growing wild in fields and uncultivated areas.

agrestal

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adjective

(of uncultivated plants such as weeds) growing on cultivated land

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of agrestal¹

1600–10; < Latin agrest ( is ) pertaining to fields, rural, rustic (by dissimilation from *agrestris, equivalent to agr-, stem of ager field + -estris adj. suffix) + -al ¹

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