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adjective
- pertaining to marshes
- 1958: The insects are scant, skinny. / In these homes we only / Croak and wither. " Sylvia Plath, "Frog Autumn"
- 1974: Its archaic handsomeness, nemoral and chthonic, is the 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. " Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
Etymology: Latin palustris, from palus "swamp".
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