What does paludious mean?

paludious

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"... call "places paludious". But those places paludious were just what helped to keep the water table up in a hot July or a dry season, and I doubt very much whether the return upon the land is worth the trouble."
"The lions in Mesopotamia ... are destroyed by gnats; their importunity being such in those paludious places, that the lions by rubbing their eyes grow blind, and so are drowned. -- Gauden, Tears of the Church,[…]"

more paludious (comparative) most paludious (superlative)

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