irriguous \ih-RIG-yoo-uhs\, adjective:
Well-watered, as land.
For if the old cress-woman, the sole inhabitant of that secluded valley, had been inclined to make observations, she could not have failed to perceive that irriguous as were the windings of the brook, Miss Margaret and her friends preferred following them to their utmost.
-- Catherine Grace Frances Gore, "Blanks and Prizes, Or The Wheel of Fortune," Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
As nothing, at the opening of Spring, can exceed the luxuriant vegetation of these irriguous valleys; so, no term could be chosen more expressive of their verdure.
-- William Beckford, Vathek
Irriguous comes from the Latin word irrigāre meaning "to wet" and the suffix -ous which turns a verb into an adjective, like nervous.
精心澆灌的土地。
如果老水芹的女人，唯一的居民，幽谷，已傾向於提出意見，她不能沒有覺察到irriguous溪，吳靄儀和她的朋友繞組寧願跟隨他們到他們的最大的努力。
- 凱瑟琳·格雷斯弗朗西絲·戈爾，“空白和獎品，或該輪的財富，”大吉的愛丁堡雜誌
如無物，在春天開放，可以超過這些irriguous山谷茂密的植被，所以，沒有長期，可以選擇其翠綠的表現。
- 威廉·貝克福德，Vathek
從拉丁詞irrigāre，意思是“濕”和後綴項變成一個形容詞，動詞，如緊張，irriguous來。
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