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paludious

paludious adjective: paludinous.

Adjective

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
    • 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

Forms of paludious

comparativemore paludious
superlativemost paludious

Questions about paludious

What does paludious mean?
Paludious means paludinous.
What part of speech is paludious?
Paludious is an adjective.

Words near paludious in the dictionary

  1. paludinae
  2. paludinal
  3. paludinas
  4. paludine
  5. paludinous
  6. paludious
  7. paludism
  8. paludisms
  9. paludomid
  10. paludomids
  11. paludose

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