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Answer for the clue "South African swampland ", 4 letters:
vlei

Word definitions for vlei in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (label en South Africa) A shallow wetlands or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetlands appears seasonally. Etymology 2 n. (label en US) a wetland or marsh

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A vlei is a shallow minor lake, mostly of a seasonal or intermittent nature. It even might refer to seasonal ponds or marshy patches where frogs and similar marsh dwellers breed. Commonly, vleis vary in their extent, or even in the presence or absence of ...

Usage examples of vlei.

However, Sally-Anne picked out a herd of big beige humpbacked eland in one of the open vleis beside a dry river-bed, and then, twenty miles further on, a solitary bull elephant.