Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A tract of marshland, usually under water and covered in places with tall grass.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A low, swampy tract of land, more or less covered by a growth of tall grass: a word in common use in Florida, a large portion of the southern part of this State being a marshy region known as the Everglades. Further north similar tracts, in the region bordering on the sea, are called dismals or pocosins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun United States A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tract of marshland, especially one containing clumps of sawgrass and hammocks of vegetation

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After the Everglades.]

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Examples

  • I have no idea of how long we were in that vast everglade, but it must have been for weeks.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • His room at the Chelsea looked as though the mad hand of a god had transposed it into an everglade sarcophagus.

    Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009

  • (Soundbite of song "Everglade") Mr. HEGARTY: (Singing) Of everglade.

    Antony And The Johnsons: Nature Songs 2009

  • (Soundbite of song "Everglade") Mr. HEGARTY: (Singing) Of everglade.

    Antony And The Johnsons: Nature Songs 2009

  • Joined by my daughter, who teaches middle school in Naples 'eastern suburbs, we spent the first few days leafleting the endless grid of streets that cover what had been, for thousands of years, slash pine forest and everglade waterways.

    Richard Appelbaum: Election Day Audacity in Immokalee, Fla. 2008

  • From there he found a stone bridge slicing across an everglade of reeds and foul water.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • From there he found a stone bridge slicing across an everglade of reeds and foul water.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • But Mercy's tame wind let them press on, breasting the current, until they emerged at last into an open expanse of saltmarsh, a green and living everglade that seemed to stretch on forever into the misted west.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • Picking a path as they went on Jack and his companions pushed into the deep everglade, the lush undergrowth sometimes quite impeding their progress, and making their advance very slow.

    The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island Cyril Burleigh

  • I have no idea of how long we were in that vast everglade, but it must have been for weeks.

    Chapter XVIII 1906

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