paludal
nounEtymology From Latin palus (“marsh”).
1
A plant found in marshy habitats.
paludal
adj/pəˈluːdəl/ · /ˈpæljədəl/
Etymology From Latin palus (“marsh”).
1
Pertaining to marshes, marshy, palustral, (especially designating a plant's habitat).
- […] Omega-Froid running out through the Gulf Stream into the paludal bed of the Sargasso Sea, running through the marsupials and the foraminifera, […]1936, Henry Miller, “Jabberwhorl Cronstadt”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 146:
- Derived terms
- paludal fever, postpaludal