palustral

comparative more palustral · superlative most palustral

1. Pertaining to or located in marshes; marshy.

   The insects are scant, skinny. / In these palustral homes we only / Croak and wither.

   1958, Sylvia Plath, Frog Autumn’

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   Its archaic handsomeness, nemoral and chthonic, is the palustral involution of the vagina folded out and distended, cave become tower, as elegant a morphology as the spreading of the conifer leaf into oak and elm.

   1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

2. biologyThat requires a marshy habitat.

   Telebasis salva is found in shallow waters containing palustral vegetation.

   1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic Insects of California, page 145