Meanings
comparative more scaturiginous · superlative most scaturiginous
- uncommonHaving a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.
Such areas not being scaturiginous, and arable, will ever be sparcely populated.
2008 September 14 [????], Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience, →ISBN, page 102 more examples
For their own protection, the tribes on the Susquehannah formed a league, which was strengthened by daily accessions of straggling families, scattered, as chance or fancy dictated, along the brook-sides or under the edge of some forest glade of the umbrose, scaturginious land.
1856, Winthrop Sargent and Robert Orme, The history of an expedition against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 under Major-General Edward Braddock (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co), page 96It would be an inconceivably macilent language which contained only words from one source, and which did not draw supplies from any scaturiginous country through which it passed.
1910, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers, page 136
Origin
- Latinscaturigīnus
- Englishscaturiginous
From Latin scaturigīnus, from scaturīgo (scatūr(iō) + -igō) + -īnus.
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