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English
Etymology
From Latin palustris, from palūs (“swamp”), -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
palustral (comparative more palustral, superlative most palustral)
- Pertaining to or located in marshes; marshy.
1958, Sylvia Plath, Frog Autumn’:The insects are scant, skinny. / In these palustral homes we only / Croak and wither.
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:Its archaic handsomeness, nemoral and chthonic, is the palustral involution of the vagina folded out and distended, cave become tower, as elegant a morphology as the spreading of the conifer leaf into oak and elm.
- (botany, of a plant) That requires a marshy habitat.
1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic Insects of California, page 145:Telebasis salva is found in shallow waters containing palustral vegetation.
Synonyms
Translations
Pertaining to or living in marshes; marshy
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