Agricultural means to do with farming. Agricultural land, an agricultural show, agricultural policy.
Agricultural land is a legal category with its own rules about what may be built on it, which is why the phrase appears in every planning dispute. In cricket, an agricultural shot is a wild swing, from the idea of a farmhand swinging a scythe.
1adjectiveagriculturalTo do with farming.
“Tractors and other agricultural machines were on show at the county fair.”
agricultural is a quality.
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷel-
Middle French
agriculture
Middle English
agriculture
English
agriculture
English, today
agricultural
Built from
From agriculture + -al. agriculture comes from Middle English agriculture, from Middle French agriculture. From Middle English agriculture, partly from Middle French agriculture and partly from its etymon Latin agricultūra, from ager (“field”) + cultūra (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA