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paludal, a.|pəˈl(j)uːdəl, ˈpæl(j)uːdəl| [f. L. palūs, palūd-em marsh + -al1.] Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen; Med. and Path. produced by or arising from a marsh; malarial; esp. Bot., of a plant, growing in marshy ground. Also, as n., a plant requiring a marshy habitat.
1818–20E. Thompson Cullen's Nosol. Meth. (ed. 3) 317 Order II. Pyrexiæ. Fevers{ddd}19{ddd}Paludal. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 602 Dr. Young gives to intermittents and remittents the common name of paludal fever. 1847H. C. Watson Cybele Britannica I. 65 The proposed series of terms runs thus:—..Paludal. Plants of marshy ground, the roots of which are in water or wet ground most part of the year, or constantly. 1856Todd & Bowman Phys. Anat. II. 115 Persons exposed to the paludal poison. 1896–7Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 47 Every variety of land-surface from Mount Olympus to the paludal lakes of the plain. Ibid. II. 308 Lancisi pointed out its [intermittent fever's] connection with paludal miasmata. 1926Nat. Hist. Oxford District 88 Many of these paludals..can grow equally well on either soil. 1932G. C. Druce Comital Flora Brit. Isles p. xxv, The Hydrophytes or Water-loving plants..include first the Paludal or Marsh and Bog plants. 1974Kew Bull. XXIX. 542 The paludal species [of giant lobelia]..have little secondary wood. |