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Swampy area
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wetland
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1743, from wet (adj.) + land (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a low area where the land is saturated with water
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. For specific wetland types see bog , marsh and swamp . Wetlands may refer to: Wetlands (novel) , a German erotic novel by Charlotte Roche Wetlands (video ...
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
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.