Irriguous
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Irrigated, well-watered. archaic, poetic
"Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks / Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, / Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap / Of som irriguous Valley spred her store […]."
Example
More examples"Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks / Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, / Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap / Of som irriguous Valley spred her store […]."
Etymology
From Latin irriguus, from in- + riguus (“watered”), from rigāre (“to wet”).
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