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 or fen

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

  • [Arianne] Prevost, 23 ... claimed the 11-foot gator at about 9 p.m. Tuesday in marshland between Lake Washington and Lake Winder.

    Florida Woman Bags Big Gator With Crossbow 2009

  • [Arianne] Prevost, 23 ... claimed the 11-foot gator at about 9 p.m. Tuesday in marshland between Lake Washington and Lake Winder.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • 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.

    The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006

  • The marshland was a fertile and thriving place, catalyzed with life large and small.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • The marshland was a fertile and thriving place, catalyzed with life large and small.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • This is followed by boggy marshland which is regularly flooded by the sea and broken up by many lagoons.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • It reclaimed marshland for cultivation, constructed dykes, improved drainage systems, and completed vast tree removal operations.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • An Iraqi from the marshland tribes told me they still make fish this way.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • 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.

    Rocky Kistner: A Dolphin's Dilemma for Fishermen in the Gulf Rocky Kistner 2011

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