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单词 marsh
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Definition of marsh in English:

marsh

noun mɑːʃmɑrʃ
  • An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times.

    沼泽;湿地

    the marsh marigold loves damp fields, riverbanks, and marshes
    mass noun patches of marsh
    as modifier marsh plants
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All around our coastline we have estuaries, docks, harbours, marshes and breakwaters.
    • The landscape of the national parks is endless stretches of salt water marshes rather than canyons or petrified forests.
    • Large parts of the marsh are now in use as a buffer area when food stock is temporarily depleted.
    • Until late October the birds may be found on estuaries, flooded coastal marshes and farm reservoirs.
    • They prefer life on the shores of deep, clear rivers, lakes, large marshes, and ocean bays.
    • The Romans became practised at draining marshes to rid areas of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
    • The wetlands, its seeps and its marshes are jealousy maintained and protected from all disturbance.
    • When the flood plains dry up cattle graze on the succulent marsh grass which grew while the plains were filled with water.
    • It is a large fresh water lake associated with marshes on the flood plains of the river.
    • Folk are few and far between amid these rounded hills, rocky ridges, peat bogs and marshes.
    • North of the main park is a marsh, though the plants are new and haven't grown enough to be visible.
    • Living in freshwater marshes with areas of open water, they stalk fish, eels, frogs and insects.
    • Our boat noses into the tidal marsh, and we spot nesting egrets and barking sea lions.
    • The distribution of plants in freshwater marshes is driven by competition, inundation and draw-down.
    • Explorer days are also an opportunity to find more about local habitats such as woodlands, bogs, coast and marshes.
    • The boundary between the mudflat and the retreating marsh is a unique environment.
    • In the shallow marshes near the river grows a unique type of yellow water lily.
    • On the first day after the flood, two of the large creatures were found in a nearby marsh area and returned to the farm.
    • Yet too many of the bottom lands, swamps, and marshes that drew me back no longer exist.
    • Farmers simply saw the marsh as unproductive land that could be used for grazing animals.
    Synonyms
    swamp, marshland, bog, peat bog, swampland, morass, mire, quagmire, quag, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, sump
    salt marsh, saltings, salina
    North American bayou, pocosin, moor
    Scottish &amp Northern English moss
    Irish corcass
    archaic marish

Origin

Old English mer(i)sc (perhaps influenced by late Latin mariscus 'marsh'), of West Germanic origin.

Rhymes

démarche, gouache, harsh, moustache (US mustache)

Definition of marsh in US English:

marsh

nounmɑrʃmärSH
  • An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times.

    沼泽;湿地

    the marsh marigold loves damp fields, riverbanks, and marshes
    mass noun patches of marsh
    as modifier marsh plants
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet too many of the bottom lands, swamps, and marshes that drew me back no longer exist.
    • Living in freshwater marshes with areas of open water, they stalk fish, eels, frogs and insects.
    • Folk are few and far between amid these rounded hills, rocky ridges, peat bogs and marshes.
    • When the flood plains dry up cattle graze on the succulent marsh grass which grew while the plains were filled with water.
    • The Romans became practised at draining marshes to rid areas of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
    • In the shallow marshes near the river grows a unique type of yellow water lily.
    • The distribution of plants in freshwater marshes is driven by competition, inundation and draw-down.
    • The boundary between the mudflat and the retreating marsh is a unique environment.
    • Large parts of the marsh are now in use as a buffer area when food stock is temporarily depleted.
    • The wetlands, its seeps and its marshes are jealousy maintained and protected from all disturbance.
    • Until late October the birds may be found on estuaries, flooded coastal marshes and farm reservoirs.
    • Farmers simply saw the marsh as unproductive land that could be used for grazing animals.
    • They prefer life on the shores of deep, clear rivers, lakes, large marshes, and ocean bays.
    • Explorer days are also an opportunity to find more about local habitats such as woodlands, bogs, coast and marshes.
    • It is a large fresh water lake associated with marshes on the flood plains of the river.
    • The landscape of the national parks is endless stretches of salt water marshes rather than canyons or petrified forests.
    • Our boat noses into the tidal marsh, and we spot nesting egrets and barking sea lions.
    • North of the main park is a marsh, though the plants are new and haven't grown enough to be visible.
    • On the first day after the flood, two of the large creatures were found in a nearby marsh area and returned to the farm.
    • All around our coastline we have estuaries, docks, harbours, marshes and breakwaters.
    Synonyms
    swamp, marshland, bog, peat bog, swampland, morass, mire, quagmire, quag, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, sump

Origin

Old English mer(i)sc (perhaps influenced by late Latin mariscus ‘marsh’), of West Germanic origin.

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