Marsh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An area of soft, wet, low-lying land, characterized by grassy vegetation and often forming a transition zone between water and land.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tract of water-soaked or partially overflowed land; wet, miry, or swampy ground; a piece of low ground usually more or less wet by reason of overflow, or scattered pools, but often nearly or wholly dry in certain seasons; a swamp; a fen. Low land subject to overflow by the tides is called salt-marsh or tide-marsh.
  • n. In Australia, a drained meadow. See the extract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
  • n. United States painter (1898-1954)
  • n. New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    painter    author    writer   
    Cross Reference
    marsh bent    marshmallow    slack   
    Variant
    marish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fen    swamp    morass    quagmire    quag    slough    mire    dog    marish    maremma   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Marche    harsh   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    swamp    meadow    prairie    moor    lake    valley    pond    lagoon    creek    desert