Dictionary entry

Agrarian

Webster's Dictionary 1913

A‐gra″ri‐an (�), a. [L. agrarius, fr. ager field.] 1. Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.

His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment.

Burke.

2. (Bot.) Wild; — said of plants growing in the fields.