palustral
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin palustris, from palūs (“swamp”), -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pəˈlʌstɹəl/
Audio (Midland US, male voice): (file)
Adjective
[edit]palustral (comparative more palustral, superlative most palustral)
- Pertaining to or located in marshes; marshy.
- 1958, Sylvia Plath, Frog Autumn’:
- The insects are scant, skinny. / In these palustral homes we only / Croak and wither.
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- Its archaic handsomeness, nemoral and chthonic, is the palustral involution of the vagina folded out and distended, cave become tower, as elegant a morphology as the spreading of the conifer leaf into oak and elm.
- (botany, of a plant) That requires a marshy habitat.
- 1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic Insects of California, page 145:
- Telebasis salva is found in shallow waters containing palustral vegetation.
Synonyms
[edit]- palustrine, boggy, paludal, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy
Translations
[edit]Pertaining to or living in marshes; marshy