palustral
English
WOTD – 30 April 2011
Adjective
palustral (comparative more palustral, superlative most palustral)
- Pertaining to or living in marshes; marshy.
- 1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic Insects of California, page 145:
- Telebasis salva is found in shallow waters containing palustral vegetation.
- 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.
- 1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic Insects of California, page 145:
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