paludal

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Nearly a million cubic yards of sediment had made the five-mile journey, resulting in the creation—or, to be more accurate, the re-creation—of a hundred and eighty-six paludal acres.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

A characteristic paludal deposit is a peat bog, a deposit rich in organic matter that can be converted into coal when lithified.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

As long as the paludal theory held sway, the chemical interpretation of this identity of the product in every latitude was easy.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

Such aliases as hemorrhagic malarial fever, climatic fever, rice fever, h�matemesic paludal fever, and many more of the same character, should receive the severest examination before approval and adoption.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It is sometimes called paludal fever, and at others la grippe, and it is epidemic rather than contagious.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull