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形容詞

paludinous (comparative more paludinous, superlative most paludinous)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) Paludinal: characteristic of or relating to marsh, swamp or fen.
   • 1907, Eclectic Magazine, page 74:

     The ground, where there happened to be any, was covered with spongy moss, and mucous lichens. We wasted days in going round deep swamps, while all kinds of paludinous creatures glided about and frightened our horses. Our water - proof overcoats were worn full of holes and we were drenched to the skin.

   • 2013 December 11, Ivo Hodek, Biology of Coccinellidae, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 78:

     ... species of coccinellids are known to be firmly restricted to a certain, more or less strictly defined habitat. Among the common species, for example, the hygrophilous Anisostica novemdecimpunctata is bound to vegetation of paludinous habitats (as marshes, fens and moist meadows), […]

2. (obsolete) Relating to the genus Paludina.

参照

• “paludinous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.