salubrious

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Here the climate was salubrious, the land in many places fertile, and everywhere fit for sheep or cattle.

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  1. adjective Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.

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  • The river ran through a beautiful and fertile country; its waters were pure and salubrious, and well stocked with fish; its banks were covered with trees bearing the fine fruits of the island, so that in sailing along, the fruits and flowers might be plucked with the hand from the branches which overhung the stream. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
  • The second expedition is to a country quite as salubrious, and which presents no dangers whatever for travelers,—South America. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • The inland location of the New City is more salubrious, and the extensive grounds that surround each dwelling give abundant freedom for ventilation, while the few hours passed by business or professional gentlemen at their offices--and those the best hours of the day, from breakfast to luncheon--are not deemed specially detrimental to health, even for foreigners. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • The climate is generally salubrious, and quite moderate. —  Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
  • I am inclined to think now that Ghadames is not salubrious, although, thank God, I enjoy pretty good health. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
 

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  1. From Latin salūbris, from salūs, health; see sol- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. With added suffix -ous (cf. F. Spanish Portuguese Italian salubre,) from Latin salubris, healthful, healthy, wholesome, from salus (salut-), health: see salute.
 

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/səˈljubrɪəs/
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