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irriguous

adjective

Irrigated, well-watered.

OriginLatin irriguus →

Scrabble 10

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Meanings

adjectiveirriguous (comparative more irriguous, superlative most irriguous)

comparative more irriguous · superlative most irriguous

archaicpoeticIrrigated, well-watered.
See, where the winding Vale its lavish Stores, / Irriguous, spreads.
a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
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Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks / Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, / Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap / Of som irriguous Valley spred her store […].
1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see

drenched humid lash moist plashy saturated soaked soppy squidgy thone watery wet wetter than an otter's pocket

Origin

Latinirriguus
Englishirriguous

From Latin irriguus, from in- + riguus (“watered”), from rigāre (“to wet”).

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