Today's wwftd is... paludal

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Feb 8, 2012, 9:48:22 AM2/8/12

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The worthless word for the day is: paludal

[fr. L. palus, swamp]

Having to do with, or produced by, swamps or marshes

"The paludal countryside was one of the main problems encountered in the digging of the Panama canal.."
- Norman Schur, 1000 Most Challenging Words (1987)

"A lover of Celtic myth might be more likely to see paludal luminescence as a will-o'-the-wisp."
- Transactions of the Amer. Philological Assoc. (2000)