uliginous

uliginous

English

Etymology

From Latin ūlīginōsus (“swampy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːˈlɪdʒɪnəs/

Adjective

uliginous (comparative more uliginous, superlative most uliginous)

1. Slimy.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 205:

     water strongly boiled; wherein the Seeds are extinguished by fire and decoction, and therefore last long and pure without such alteration, affording neither uliginous coats, gnatworms, Acari, hairworms, like crude and common water

2. Marshy, swampy, waterlogged.
3. Growing in muddy places.
   • 1886 Asa Gray. Contributions to American Botany. A Revision of the North American Ranunculi.

     Ranunculus Lapponicus, L. Uliginous or subaquatic, fibrous-rooted, with entire or merely denticulate or crenulated and petiolate leaves. [1]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Woodward to this entry?)

References

1. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Communicated March 13, 1886.