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wetland
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a woodland/wetland/grassland/marshland habitat (= a place in a wood, etc where animals and plants live or grow ) ▪ The owl inhabits woodland habitats from Scotland to southern Spain. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Each wetland ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a low area where the land is saturated with water
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1743, from wet (adj.) + land (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water , either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem . The primary factor that distinguishes wetlands from other land forms or water bodies is the characteristic ...
Usage examples of wetland.
Those men still in the swamp spend much of their time acurse at the cold, but they have at least the advantage that the stiltspear, perfidious wetland savages, have retreated and no longer harry them.
Everybody who owned any wetland would demand publicly funded dikes, ditches and sewers.
Another time they encountered an ancient raised railroad bed, crossing a broad wetland like some improbably straight esker.
Which on the map was marked liberally with wetland symbols, much of it with the subsymbol for brush, and also with occasional small round ponds that suggested fen pools, roofed thickly with ice in this season.
Cycles and swamp terrains of fear and periodically recurring depressions and earliest wetland secretions of dread (brain stem and midbrain), not to mention Mr.