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

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

The fact that an art which springs from such a marshy soil may, like certain paludal plants, be “wonderful,” “gorgeous,” and “overwhelming,” cannot be denied; but true art it is not.

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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