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Adjective- Of, relating to, or made up of marshes or fens.

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  • It is sometimes called paludal fever, and at others la grippe, and it is epidemic rather than contagious.
  • Traité des fièvres palustres (Treatise on paludal fevers) and I returned to it on several occasions.
  • Lernaean marshes was but an allegory to denote the dissipation of paludal malaria by the purifying rays of the orb of day.
  • As long as the paludal theory held sway, the chemical interpretation of this identity of the product in every latitude was easy.
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