1897 M. Kingsley W. Africa 301A personal acquaintance with fluvial and *paludial ground deposits.
1860 All Year Round No. 53. 66The true specific against *paludian fever.
1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 439To choose his lodging..far from *palludiat Ditches.
Ibid. 493,I set face..for Scotland, suiting my..feete with the palludiat way.
1897 M. L. Hughes Medit. Fever i. 2This endemic fever of the Mediterranean.. distinguished from other diseases, more particularly from enteric and *paludic fevers. [ is]
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,*Paludicolous . [ printed -culous]
1656 Blount Glossogr.,*Paludiferous..that causeth a Fen or Marsh.
1594 T. Bedingfield tr. Machiavelli's FlorentineHist. (1595) 27The Cittie of Venice, seated in a place *paludious, and vnwholesome.
1659 Gauden Tears Church i. v. 60The Lions in Mesopotamia..are destroyed by gnats; their importunity being such in those paludious places.
paludi-
combining form
Etymology: Late Latin, from Latin palud-, palus marsh — more at paludal
: marsh
< paludicole >
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