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irriguous (ih-RIG-yoo-uhs) - adj., (arch., poet.) well-watered.
The standard noun modified by this seems to have been "land." As a poeticism, it's in the highfalutin' register, and as archaic, it's halfway to the stuffy register as well. A cognate of irrigated, borrowed in the 16th century from Latin irriguus, supplied with water, from riguus, watered.
---L.
The standard noun modified by this seems to have been "land." As a poeticism, it's in the highfalutin' register, and as archaic, it's halfway to the stuffy register as well. A cognate of irrigated, borrowed in the 16th century from Latin irriguus, supplied with water, from riguus, watered.
---L.
