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n. (plural of wetland English) An area or region that is characteristically saturated; a marsh.
Wikipedia
Wetlands is a 1995 computer game developed by created by Hypnotix, Inc. and published by New World Computing for DOS.
The sci-fi storyline is set in the distant future, after the icecaps have melted and the entire earth has become a "waterworld" (those who didn't flee the earth for off-world colonies live in underwater cities). The main character, a mercenary name Cole, is hired by the interplanetary governing body and called back to earth to uncover a plot to overthrow the government.
The game begins with the player controlling a spaceship, but later it becomes a first person shooter and also has other action elements. The game was mostly famed for its fluid animation and lengthy cutscenes.
Wetlands is Charlotte Roche's debut novel. Partly autobiographical, it was first published in German in 2008 by M. DuMont Schauberg and was the world's best-selling novel in March 2008. For supporters it is a piece of erotic literature; for critics it is cleverly marketed pornography. It was published in English as Wetlands by Grove Press in April 2009.
The title, which might be translated as " wetlands" or "damp areas," here refers to a woman's genitals.
Wetlands is a 2011 Canadian film from Quebec written and directed by Guy Édoin and starring Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Maillé, Luc Picard and François Papineau. It had its Canadian premier at the Toronto International Film Festival and its Quebec premier at the Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec (FCVQ). Theatrical release was on October 14, 2011.
Wetlands is a 2013 German drama film and directed by David Wnendt. It is based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Charlotte Roche. The film premiered in International competition at the 2013 Locarno International Film Festival on August 11, 2013.
The film later premiered in-competition in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Strand Releasing acquired the US distribution rights for the film.
Usage examples of "wetlands".
This time the money came in hefty election-time checks from developers, their attorneys and members of the Latin Builders Associationthose who most eagerly want to bulldoze the wetlands.
As he neared the wetlands, he caught sight of a row of cygnets swimming in tandem behind a mother swan through the brackish water.
Thus preoccupied, most entrepreneurs remained wary of the buggy, moccasin-infested wetlands below the Tamiami Trail.
We oppress the gays, blacks, Latinos, Asians, Indians, plants, bugs, minerals, the ozone, the snail darter, the wetlands, and the moon.
Sixteen Raptors, all the Marines had, lifted into the air and headed in flights of two to designated locations just outside the wetlands.
Free from worry about rail guns, half of the Marine Raptors stopped firing Jerichos at the Skinks battling the Army of the Lord and took flight after the armor, which began massing as soon as it left the wetlands.
The Bird Road basin and surrounding wetlands feed the Biscayne Aquifer, which filters and supplies our drinking water.
We went birding in the wetlands and saw hundreds of Canada geese getting ready to migrate.
Later that evening, when they were saying good night at her carriage house, Polly mentioned casually, "This weekend may be the last chance to go birding in the wetlands.
Too often, back here, they find themselves chaining through wetlands, the water usually a foot and a half to two feet deep, Daylight somewhere above them, indifferent, the Gloom in here forcing them to shorter sights, more set-ups, closer Quarters.
The weather patterns of Istra bestowed rain in a serpentine belt, low on one continent and coastally on the other, storms breaking on an incredible mountain ridge which created wetlands coastward, and one of the most regrettable desolations of the Reach on the far side.
The wetlands down there near the beaver dam are a sanctuary, and Canada geese and mallard ducks come and occupy the pond, and sometimes a blue heron pays us a visit.
Then in midmorning on a fine April Saturday, I drove over to Alligator Alley and we went humming westward past the wetlands, the scrub palmetto, the dwarf cypress.
The former seaplane facility where Pan American's Boeing-made clippers had landed before flying on to Southampton-and where the airline had invented Irish coffee to help the passengers wake up was on the West Coast of Ireland, surrounded by farms and green wetlands that seemed to glisten in the light of dawn.
Pacian, always a farmer, was now going into tree farming, gradually remaking the wetlands without de -- stroying it.