Unreclaimed

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not reclaimed.

    "It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed, the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams."

Example

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"It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed, the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams."

Etymology

From un- + reclaimed.

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