agronomial en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌæ.ɡɹəˈnəʊ.mɪ.əl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌæ.ɡɹəˈnoʊ.mɪ.əl/ (General-American)
Etymology
From agronomy + -ial.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Synonym of agronomic.
The chaise wheeled along the smoothest and freshest of gravel roads, and through fields of the finest land, in the highest state of cultivation. Rapid as was Leonard's survey, his rural eye detected the signs of a master in the art agronomial.
1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter II, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 8: