Living in or inhabiting cultivated fields or agricultural areas, typically used to describe insects or organisms.
From Latin agricola (farmer, field) with the suffix -ous (full of or characterized by). The root agricola combines agr- (field) with colere (to dwell or cultivate).
Scientists use agricolous to describe insects that specifically live in crop fields—a tiny word that captures the whole category of creatures that evolved to thrive in human-planted fields, from grasshoppers to grain beetles.
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