uliginous

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  • (though it sheds a kind of _samera_ about the Spring) which being planted at four or five foot interval, in small twigs, will suddenly rise to trees; provided they affect the ground, which cannot well be too barren, or spongy; for it will thrive both in the dry, and the wet, sand, and stony, marshes, and bogs; the water-galls, and uliginous parts of forests that hardly bear any grass, do many times spontaneously produce it in abundance, whether the place be high, or low, and nothing comes amiss to it. —  Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
 

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  1. from French uligineux = Italian uliginoso, from Latin uliginosus, full of moisture, damp, from uligo, moisture, marshiness, for *uviligo, from uvere, be wet or damp: see humid. Cf. uliginose.
 

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