scaturiginous

English

Etymology

From Latin scaturigīnus, from scaturīgo (scatūr(iō) + -igō) + -īnus.

Adjective

scaturiginous (comparative more scaturiginous, superlative most scaturiginous)

1. (uncommon) Having a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.
   • 1856, Winthrop Sargent and Robert Orme, The history of an expedition against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 under Major-General Edward Braddock (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co), page 96:

     For their own protection, the tribes on the Susquehannah formed a league, which was strengthened by daily accessions of straggling families, scattered, as chance or fancy dictated, along the brook-sides or under the edge of some forest glade of the umbrose, scaturginious land.

   • 1910, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers, page 136:

     It would be an inconceivably macilent language which contained only words from one source, and which did not draw supplies from any scaturiginous country through which it passed.

   • 2008 September 14 [????], Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience, →ISBN, page 10:

     Such areas not being scaturiginous, and arable, will ever be sparcely populated.

Related terms

• scaturient