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noun

a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English saltmerche, Old English sealtne mersc

Related forms

salt-marsh, salt·marsh, adjective

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salt marsh

—n
	an area of marshy ground that is intermittently inundated with salt water or that retains pools or rivulets of salt or brackish water, together with its characteristic halophytic vegetation

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salt marsh
A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides.

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