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English
Etymology
From Latin palus (“marsh”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pəˈluːdəl/, /ˈpæljədəl/
Adjective
paludal (comparative more paludal, superlative most paludal)
- pertaining to marshes, marshy, palustral, especially designating a plant's habitat
1936, Henry Miller, “Jabberwhorl Cronstadt”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press , →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 146:[…] Omega-Froid running out through the Gulf Stream into the paludal bed of the Sargasso Sea, running through the marsupials and the foraminifera, […]
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Spanish
Adjective
paludal m or f (masculine and feminine plural paludales)
- paludal, palustral