Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A large swampy region of southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. The area includes cypress swamps, peat bogs, marshes, and wooded hummocks.
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- noun a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia
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Examples
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The Okefenokee Swamp is a rainfall-dependent system, and cycles of drought and fire affect both its vegetation and wildlife distributions.
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The Okefenokee Swamp is a mixture of forested swamp and freshwater marsh with some pine uplands.
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Johnson said the oar is made from wood in the Okefenokee Swamp, which is common in both states and is engraved into the histories of both Florida and Georgia.
unknown title 2009
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Sales have been hurt by county county bans across Florida, where two firefighters died in June, and south Georgia, where drought is rampant and wildfires have scorched more than 300,000 acres of the Okefenokee Swamp.
A Fourth of July Without Fireworks? Shalini Ramachandran 2011
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As weak and warped as it is, and as difficult as it is even now to admit it, I was so humiliated by the fact that I was from the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in the worst hookworm and rickets part of Georgia I could not bear to think of it, and worse to believe it.
The 7 Glenn Beck 2011
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Smoke permeates the air in the heavily wooded region surrounding this small, southeast Georgia city near the Okefenokee Swamp.
Fires and Drought Fell South's Timber Shalini Ramachandran 2011
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As weak and warped as it is, and as difficult as it is even now to admit it, I was so humiliated by the fact that I was from the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in the worst hookworm and rickets part of Georgia I could not bear to think of it, and worse to believe it.
The 7 Glenn Beck 2011
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Readers take note: I am currently autumning in a small timeshare Quonset in the heart of the Okefenokee Swamp, with limited internet access.
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Readers take note: I am currently autumning in a small timeshare Quonset in the heart of the Okefenokee Swamp, with limited internet access.
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Readers take note: I am currently autumning in a small timeshare Quonset in the heart of the Okefenokee Swamp, with limited internet access.
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