MARSH


Meaning of MARSH in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

marsh gas

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

coastal

One or two pairs breed in coastal marshes .

Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.

Cattle fattening on the coastal marshes supported a prosperous peasantry as in Lincolnshire.

Margins of fresh and coastal water, marshes and cultivated land.

In winter on estuaries, coastal marshes and farmland.

The monks of Furness reclaimed the coastal marshes of Walney, with embankments incorporating beach pebbles.

salt

We drove back towards Titchwell Marsh, stopping to look out over the miles of salt marsh on the way.

A low white church hovered on wood piles over a salt marsh off to the left.

There were salt marshes on the seaward side of the coastal road and Davis had found a causeway that flanked them.

You play over a salt marsh , or bayou, from tee to green.

Some of these inlets lead to salt marshes and estuaries which give refuge to many other coastal birds, especially waders.

Here is Doty describing a salt marsh near his Provincetown, Mass., home.

Channels and salt marsh , reed beds and pools, shingle and fore shore.

Miles of salt marsh stretched before us, reaching to the shores of the River Severn.

■ NOUN

gas

Perhaps when unhappy people die they release an effluvium of depression, like marsh gas .

plant

And there are marsh plants in the bossy bits and beside the little streams.

Nearly all of the species are marsh plants which also grow on the banks of still as well as moving waters.

Being a marsh plant , it prefers to be grown emersed.

The stem is delicate, seldom branching, prostrate, and rooting as a marsh plant .

Comments: Acorus is a marsh plant , and therefore does well in emerse rather than submerged conditions.

Many species are marsh plants which have not yet been tested for use in the aquarium.

Lapland buntings and skylarks swirled and settled, searching for the last seeds of salt marsh plants below the bank.

This is essentially a marsh plant .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But back on the marshes and fens, who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation?

In winter resorts to damp grassland, fresh-water margins, marshes and estuaries, often in flocks.

She caught a few words: marsh , explosion, death.

That's how I reached the marshes, and the churchyard.

The marsh was not like water, and the car didn't sink to. he bottom.

This happened with fatal consequences in 1953 when the Lee Wick wall collapsed sending water shooting over the marshes to Jaywick.

You play over a salt marsh , or bayou, from tee to green.

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