Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marshy tract of land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A marshy district; marsh.
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- noun
marshy land ;bog orfen
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
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Examples
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[Arianne] Prevost, 23 ... claimed the 11-foot gator at about 9 p.m. Tuesday in marshland between Lake Washington and Lake Winder.
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[Arianne] Prevost, 23 ... claimed the 11-foot gator at about 9 p.m. Tuesday in marshland between Lake Washington and Lake Winder.
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Lake Alaotra is also home to the Alaotra lemur Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis [image at left]: the only primate that spends most of its life in marshland.
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Lake Alaotra is also home to the Alaotra lemur Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis [image at left]: the only primate that spends most of its life in marshland.
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The marshland was a fertile and thriving place, catalyzed with life large and small.
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The marshland was a fertile and thriving place, catalyzed with life large and small.
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This is followed by boggy marshland which is regularly flooded by the sea and broken up by many lagoons.
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It reclaimed marshland for cultivation, constructed dykes, improved drainage systems, and completed vast tree removal operations.
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An Iraqi from the marshland tribes told me they still make fish this way.
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Eric’s as a wild as the thousands of acres of marshland that spread out from the end-of-the road fishing port of Venice 100 miles south of New Orleans.
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