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Everglade

Everglade \Ev`er*glade\, n. A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

Note: When used in the United States without qualification, the word Everglades is understood to refer to the Everglades of southern Florida.

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everglade

n. A tract of marshland, especially one containing clumps of sawgrass and hammocks of vegetation

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Everglade

Everglade may refer to:

  • Everglade crayfish, species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Florida
  • " Everglade Raid", an animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series
  • Everglade Township, Stevens County, Minnesota, township in Stevens County, Minnesota, the United States
Everglade (song)

"Everglade" is a song by the American alternative rock group L7. It was released as a single in support of their third album Bricks Are Heavy.

Usage examples of "everglade".

Orangeade, and all were astir early, for they wanted to be at the Everglade camp by daylight.

Hammond and his men those in charge of the Everglade camp, and the miserable creatures they held in virtual bondage, offered little resistance.

Half Way Creek had ten or a dozen families then, more than Everglade or Chokoloskee or anyplace else from Marco Island south to Cape Sable.

Watson proceeded to Everglade and Half Way Creek, two small farming communities on Chokoloskee Bay, in the northern part of the Ten Thousand Islands.

Why, only last week, folks at Everglade and Chokoloskee had told him he could move right in.

The settlements at Everglade and Half Way Creek was only mud bank, had their feet in water, but Chokoloskee Island is a shell mound of one hundred fifty acres, some of it twenty foot above the sea.

One dugout that come in to trade at Everglade in the late eighties was the first Indins seen by white people in thirty years.

Mister Watson come back from Everglade so darn excited, Tant was plume hunting back in the rivers.

Except Storters at Everglade, there was nothing between Fort Myers and Key West come close to it, not even the old Santini house on Chokoloskee.

There was still a half dozen families at Half Way Creek, another half dozen at Everglade, and a few more perched here and there down through the Islands.

There is no report of intemperate behavior in Everglade or Chokoloskee, where his friends and neighbors had most chance to observe him, nor in Fort Myers, where his genteel family came to live.

Papa describes how they come in now to Everglade and Marco with dugouts full of hides and pelts and feathers.

From Deep Lake it is a terrible distance across the Cypress to Fort Myers but only thirteen miles south to the Storter docks at Everglade, and Mr.

Also, George Storter in Everglade was sending his kids up to Fort Myers to go to high school, and Mister Watson already had the idea he would do the same.

Squatters was roosted on every bump between Marco and Everglade, and some was already drifted south of Chokoloskee Bay.