agronomic

adjective

ag·​ro·​nom·​ic ¦a-grə-¦nä-mik 

variants or agronomical

¦a-grə-¦nä-mi-kəl

: of, relating to, or designed to promote agronomy

agronomically

¦a-grə-¦nä-mi-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

agronomically important crops

As a cold-climate cereal crop, rye was an alternative to wheat and agronomically safer, but it had too low a yield and fetched too unrewarding a price to attract Veneto farmers or their landlords to cultivate it extensively.

—James McCann, Maize and Grace, 2005

Word History

Etymology

agronomy + -ic, -ical

First Known Use

1793, in the meaning defined above

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