Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
psychological depression . - adjective Of or pertaining to a physical depression.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Loss of time and wages caused by these chronic irregularities are quite as serious over a decade as the "depressional" unemployment which is now attracting so much attention.
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Vernal pools are seasonal depressional wetlands that occur under the Mediterranean climate conditions of the West Coast.
Vernal pool 2010
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The Wetlands ecoregion includes saline, brackish, or freshwater wetlands in flat to depressional terrain.
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Thousands of playa lakes (seasonal depressional wetlands) occur in this area, many serving as recharge areas for the important Ogallala Aquifer.
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Poorly drained areas support dense sedge (Carex spp.), moss, and lichen covers, and the raised beaches present a striking pattern of successive black spruce-covered (Picea mariana) ridges alternating with depressional bogs and fens.
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The nearly level, level, and depressional topography supported mostly elm-ash swamp forest but now has been cleared and drained for soybean, small grain, corn, and hay farming.
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Surface water drainage in this region is poorly developed, resulting in numerous closed watersheds that drain into low depressional areas.
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Histosols occur in depressional morainal areas, and developed from herbaceous organic deposits.
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Prairie potholes are depressional wetlands (primarily freshwater marshes) found most often in the Upper Midwest, especially North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Prairie pothole 2008
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Your possible point of intervention: the occasional times, and they will mostly be in deep depressional December, when I am all too willing to give up.
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