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Webster 1913 Edition
Uliginous
{
U-lig′i-noseˊ
,U-lig′i-nous
, }Adj.
[L.
uliginosus
, fr. uligo
, -inis
, moisture, fr. uvere
to be moist.] Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places.
[R.]
Woodward.
Webster 1828 Edition
Uliginous
ULIG'INOUS
,Adj.
Muddy; oozy; slimy.
Definition 2024
uliginous
uliginous
English
Adjective
uliginous (comparative more uliginous, superlative most uliginous)
- Slimy.
- 1658: 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 — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 205)
- Marshy, swampy, waterlogged.
- Growing in muddy places.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Woodward to this entry?)