agrestal

agrestal
/euh gres"tl/, adj.
of or pertaining to plants growing wild in fields and uncultivated areas.
[1600-10; < L agrest(is) pertaining to fields, rural, rustic (by dissimilation from *agrestris, equiv. to agr-, s. of ager field + -estris adj. suffix) + -AL1]

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