paludal
Americanadjective
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of or relating to marshes.
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produced by marshes, as miasma or disease.
adjective
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of, relating to, or produced by marshes
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malarial
Other Word Forms
- postpaludal adjective
Etymology
Origin of paludal
First recorded in 1810–20; from Latin palūd- (stem of palūs ) “swamp, marsh” + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Nearly a million cubic yards of sediment had made the five-mile journey, resulting in the creation—or, to be more accurate, the re-creation—of a hundred and eighty-six paludal acres.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
A characteristic paludal deposit is a peat bog, a deposit rich in organic matter that can be converted into coal when lithified.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
In the Roman states alone, sixty thousand perish every year from this paludal influence.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.
Imperfect reaction from a chill, long persistent hyperpyrexia, diarrhoea or vomiting, or chronic paludal cachexia, or, it may be, some epidemic influence, may produce it.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
As long as the paludal theory held sway, the chemical interpretation of this identity of the product in every latitude was easy.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
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