paludic

From Latin palus (“marsh”) +‎ -ic.

paludic (comparative more paludic, superlative most paludic)

1. Alternative form of paludal
   • 1908, George Milbry Gould, Borderland studies:

     The form of the paludic ameba is spherical when it is big and strong.

   • 2002, Leon Etienne Parent, Piotr Ilnicki, Organic Soils and Peat Materials for Sustainable Agriculture, →ISBN, page 2:

     The paludic soils, coded "Pt," characterize peat accumulated in fen, transitional, or bog mire ecosystems.

2. (obsolete) Synonym of malarial
   • 1885, New York Medical Abstract:

     The six forms of it studied successively by the author are : paludic orchidalgia, orchitis of the neuralgic form, hemorrhagic orchitis complicated with paludism, primitive paludic orchitis, chronic paludic orchitis, and paludic urethritis.

   • 1907, Public Health Papers and Reports - Volume 32, Part 1, page 115:

     The principle explaining the transmission of paludic diseases through the introduction of the protozoa into the body of the Anopheles, and consequently into the vertebrate animals is universally accepted.

   • 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World:

     Quinine, for example, was a known treatment for malaria and other 'bilious fevers of a paludic nature'.

• capulid, pudical

Borrowed from French paludique. By surface analysis, paludă +‎ -ic.

paludic m or n (feminine singular paludică, masculine plural paludici, feminine and neuter plural paludice)

1. malarial