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Webster 1913 Edition


Nemorous

Nem′o-rous

,
Adj.
[L.
nemorosus
.]
Woody.
[R.]
Paradise itself was but a kind of
nemorous
temple.
Evelyn.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nemorous

NEMOROUS

,
Adj.
Woody.

Definition 2024


nemorous

nemorous

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nemorous (comparative more nemorous, superlative most nemorous)

  1. (rare) Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
    1889: Even Paradise itself, says Evelyn, was but a kind of ‘nemorous temple or sacred grove,’ planted by God himself — Thomas Thisleton-Dyer, The Folk Lore of Plants (Kessinger 2004, p. 22)

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