单词 | paludal |
释义 | paludaladj.n. A. adj. 1. Medicine. Malarial. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > malaria paludal1813 miasmic1822 malarious1834 miasmatic1835 malarial1842 miasmous1884 malarian1886 1813 T. Young Introd. Med. Lit. 245 Paludal fever. An intermitting or remitting fever, not contagious, with well marked exacerbations; usually periodical. The cause of such fevers appears to be exclusively the exhalation from half dry mud. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 94 Dr. Young gives to intermittents and remittents the common name of paludal fever. 1856 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. II. 115 Persons exposed to the paludal poison. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 308 Lancisi pointed out its [sc. intermittent fever's] connection with paludal miasmata. 2. More generally: of or relating to a marsh or fen, marshy; (of a plant) growing in marshy ground, requiring a marshy habitat. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > that thrives or does not thrive in moisture fenny1543 plashy1822 inundatal1847 paludal1847 hygrophilous1863 uliginal1863 xerophilous1863 uliginose1866 xerophil1884 ombrophilous1895 ombrophobic1895 ombrophobous1895 xerophytic1897 sclerophyllous1903 xeromorphic1909 hydrarch1913 xerarch1913 ombrophile1924 sclerophyll1926 hygrophytic1936 xerophilic1961 the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] fen-lichc1000 fennyc1000 mooryOE marshya1382 marshlyc1410 moorisha1492 queachy?a1500 marish1549 plashya1552 foggy?1555 fen-like1561 undrained1573 fennish1577 boggy1587 paludious1595 wealy1601 marishy1607 snapy1607 uliginous1610 quagmiry1623 paludiate1632 boggish1633 pooly1652 swampy1661 spouty1677 gouty1686 pondy1687 morassy1699 sloppy1699 lairy17.. soggya1722 swampish1725 splashy1727 squashy1751 haggy1765 gaulty1784 slumpy1823 sumpy1824 paludine1852 paludic1854 paludinal1856 paludian1860 paludinous1866 paludal1871 paludial1875 morassic1893 muskeggy1894 swamped1899 1847 H. 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. 1871 Amer. Naturalist 5 606 Much of the best land there, is a genuine prairie soil, full of calcareous concretions—a feature entirely foreign to the true river alluvium as well as the modern paludal deposits. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 47 Every variety of land-surface from Mount Olympus to the paludal lakes of the plain. 1932 G. C. Druce Comital Flora Brit. Isles p. xxv The Hydrophytes or Water-loving plants..include first the Paludal or Marsh and Bog plants. 1974 Kew Bull. 29 542 The paludal species [of giant lobelia]..have little secondary wood. 1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel 5 Beyond the shack the land grows sodden, paludal, and from the marsh rises a wheel of vegetation. 2000 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 130 369 A lover of Celtic myth might be more likely to see paludal luminescence as a will-o'-the-wisp. B. n. A plant requiring a marshy habitat. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > that likes moisture or marsh plant paludal1847 bog-plant1854 hygrophile1878 hygrophyte1903 helophyte1909 hydrosere1926 1847 H. C. Watson Cybele Britannica I. 211 This species..was growing in gravel by streams, or among wet rocks; so that it comes nearest to a rupestral, though somewhat of a paludal or uliginal also. 1926 Nat. Hist. Oxf. District 88 Many of these paludals..can grow equally well on either soil. 1988 N.Z. Jrnl. Bot. 26 381/1 Except for Zantedeschia aethiopica and Mentha X citrata, the paludals are all accidental introductions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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