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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

uliginosus

, fr.

uligo

-inis

, moisture, fr.

uvere

to be moist.]

Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places.

[R.]

Woodward.

Adj.

[L. uliginosus, from uligo, ooziness.]

Muddy; oozy; slimy.

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.
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