paludious

comparative more paludious · superlative most paludious

1. Paludinous.

   ... call "places paludious". But those places paludious were just what helped to keep the water table up in a hot July or a dry season, and I doubt very much whether the return upon the land is worth the trouble.

   1970, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report

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   The lions in Mesopotamia ... are destroyed by gnats; their importunity being such in those paludious places, that the lions by rubbing their eyes grow blind, and so are drowned. -- Gauden, Tears of the Church,[…]

   2024 February 25, J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 469