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[mahrsh]

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noun

a tract of low wet land, often treeless and periodically inundated, generally characterized by a growth of grasses, sedges, cattails, and rushes.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English mershe, Old English mer(i)sc (cognate with German Marsch). See mere², -ish¹; compare marais, marish, morass

Related forms

marsh·like, adjective

Synonyms
swamp, bog, fen, marshland, wetland.

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Example Sentences

Result: even biologists find it hard to tell where the original marsh ends and the new one begins.

In this lesson, students will learn about and act out the functions of the salt marsh habitat.

In fact, it needs more water than most: the shoots of this marsh plant are typically partially submerged.

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Result: even biologists find it hard to tell where the original marsh ends and the new one begins.

In this lesson, students will learn about and act out the functions of the salt marsh habitat.

In fact, it needs more water than most: the shoots of this marsh plant are typically partially submerged.

It's a sprawling marsh and bog-prime bird habitat-with a spruce-tamarack forest and some prairie areas.

Marsh fleabane is obviously a big hit with bees as well.

Marsh recognised, for instance, that deforestation alters climate.

When a good salt marsh goes bad, voracious snails finish off the job, new research reveals.

The sora is called a secretive marsh bird because it hangs out in dense, young marsh vegetation.

Not that the marsh seems the best place to find seawater, but.

Its frontiers have sprawled into the lush jungle and marsh of the mainland.

Hunters waded into specific areas of the marsh during specific times of the year.

O'Connor showed me around a seaside farm wreathed by salt marsh and fragrant with pine woods.

Like other geese, these birds are chiefly grazers, feeding on stubble fields and eating marsh vegetation.

Now, imagine trying to capture one using your bare feet to wade through a murky marsh in search of the predator.

Marsh smell is from non-anthropogenic reduced sulfur compounds, similar if not identical to that all-familiar pulp mill aroma.

Marsh were in uncharted territory as far as taxonomy was.

Environmentalists have also attacked it for destroying marsh and mud flats used by thousands of birds.

Its source is the area's pluff mud: the dark marsh soil left behind after the tide recedes.

They landed in an marsh and there was no way they would let a backhoe in to move them.

Behind the marsh the occasional dune humped into view.

Time is ticking as the crew gathers wood to build makeshift walkways that will be used to cross over the mucky marsh.

Then new kinds of pollen appear, from species such as ferns that prefer marsh or dry land.

Ponds have been filled in with vegetation, and some areas of marsh have become open water.

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noun

Dame (Edith) Ngai·o

[nahy-oh] , 1899–1982, New Zealand writer of detective novels.

Reginald, 1898–1954, U.S. painter and illustrator.

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World English Dictionary

marsh (mɑːʃ)

—n
	Compare swamp low poorly drained land that is sometimes flooded and often lies at the edge of lakes, streams, etcRelated: paludal

Related: paludal

[Old English merisc; related to German Marsch, Dutch marsk; related to mere²]

'marshlike

—*adj*

Marsh (mɑːʃ)

—n
1.	Dame (Edith) Ngaio (ˈnaɪəʊ). 1899--1981, New Zealand crime writer, living in Britain (from 1928). Her many detective novels include Final Curtain (1947) and Last Ditch (1977)
2.	Rodney (William). born 1947, Australian cricketer. He finished his career with a world record of 355 Test match dismissals

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Word Origin & History

marsh

O.E. mersc, merisc, from W.Gmc. *marisko (cf. Du. mars, Ger. Marsch), probably from P.Gmc. *mari- "sea" (see mere (n.)).

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Science Dictionary

marsh (märsh) Pronunciation Key
An area of low-lying wetland in which the level of water is generally shallow and often fluctuating. The water may be either standing or slow-moving. The water in a marsh is also more or less neutral or alkaline, in contrast to the water in a bog, which is acidic. The environment of a marsh is in general well-oxygenated and nutrient-rich and allows a great variety of organisms to flourish. In contrast to a swamp, in which there is an abundance of woody plants, the plants in a marsh are mostly herbaceous. Reeds and rushes dominate the vegetation of marshes. See also salt marsh.

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