WETLANDS

Meaning of WETLANDS in English

n.pl. swamps and other damp areas of land.

Oxford English vocab. Оксфордский английский словарь. 2012

WETLANDS — ➡ wetland
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WETLANDS — n.pl. swamps and other damp areas of land.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WETLANDS — n.pl. swamps and other damp areas of land.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WETLANDS — areas that are regularly wet or flooded and have a water table that stands at or above the land surface …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
WETLANDS — pl сильно увлажненные земли (заболоченные и т. п.)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WETLANDS — n pl сильно увлажнённые земли ( заболоченные и т. п. )
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WETLANDS — (0) сильно увлажненные земли
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
WETLANDS — n pl сильно увлажнённые земли ( заболоченные и т. п. )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
WETLANDS — n pl сильно увлажнённые земли ( заболоченные и т. п. )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
WETLANDS — pl сильно увлажненные земли (заболоченные и т. п.)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WETLANDS, ALSO WETLAND (GENERAL) — Wetlands are those areas where water saturation is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types …
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WETLANDS, PALUSTRINE — Wetlands dominated by plants that persist throughout the year or the growing season. These areas are what most people think …
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WETLANDS, CONSTRUCTED — (1) Wetlands constructed by man either as part of a Wetland Banking, Wetland Clumping (Aggregation), or Wetland Mitigation program, or …
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WETLANDS, BENEFITS — Since colonial times, an estimated 54 percent of the total wetland areas in the United States have vanished. In a …
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WETLANDS (USFWS) — (Regulatory and Environmental) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has defined wetlands as follows: Wetlands are lands transitional between …
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WETLANDS (NEVADA) — (State Wildlife Management Areas) Wetlands are those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency …
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WETLANDS (CALIFORNIA) — Wetlands are transitional lands between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface …
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PALUSTRINE WETLANDS — Used in the wetlands classification system by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to refer to wetlands that are …
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MARSH — type of wetland ecosystem characterized by poorly drained mineral soils and by plant life dominated by grasses. The latter characteristic …
Britannica English vocabulary
BOUNDARY ECOSYSTEM — complex of living organisms in areas where one body of water meets another, e.g., estuaries and lagoons, or where a …
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WETLAND MITIGATION BANK — An arrangement whereby private developers buy credits of an acre or so each for the right to drain and build …
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WETLAND BANKING — A term used to describe actions required to be taken on the part of developers to mitigate and replace the …
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WETLAND "CLUMPING" (AGGREGATION) — The concept of wetland "clumping", or wetland aggregation, constitutes a fundamental issue of Wetland Banking programs and generally occurs when …
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STILLWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE (NWR) (NEVADA) — One of the nine National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) located in the State of Nevada, the Stillwater NWR is part of …
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RIVERINE (SYSTEMS) — Open-water habitats. Typically include all open water areas that occur within a defined channel of a stream as well as …
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PUBLIC LAW 101-618 (PL 101-618) (NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA) — Omnibus legislation passed by the 101st Congress at the end of its 1990 session intended to settle a number of …
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NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT (PUBLIC LAW 101-618) (NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA) — Omnibus legislation passed by the 101st Congress at the end of its 1990 session intended to settle a number of …
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LAHONTAN VALLEY WETLAND SYSTEM (NEVADA) — An extensive wetland system in northwestern Nevada in Churchill County near the City of Fallon encompassing the Stillwater Wildlife Management …
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JURISDICTIONAL WETLAND — An area that meets the criteria established by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps or COE) for a Wetlands …
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DEEPWATER HABITATS — (Ecology) In conjunction with Wetlands, Deepwater Habitats constitute the spectrum of an ecological classification system to better understand and describe …
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