paludal

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pa=lu=dal

CIDE DICTIONARY

paludal, a. [L. palus, -udis, a marsh.].

 Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy.  [1913 Webster]

Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

paludal, adj.
1 of a marsh.
2 malarial.

Derivative

paludism n. (in sense 2).

Etymology

L palus -udis marsh + -AL

THESAURUS

paludal

boggish, boggy, fenny, marish, marshy, mirish, miry, moorish, moory, muddy, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, spouty, swampish, swampy, uliginous

ROGET THESAURUS

paludal

Marsh

N marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash, mud, squash, slush, baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei, marsh, marshy, swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft, muddy, sloppy, squashy, paludal, moorish, moory, fenny.