noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
marsh gas
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
coastal
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One or two pairs breed in coastal marshes .
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Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.
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Cattle fattening on the coastal marshes supported a prosperous peasantry as in Lincolnshire.
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Margins of fresh and coastal water, marshes and cultivated land.
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In winter on estuaries, coastal marshes and farmland.
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The monks of Furness reclaimed the coastal marshes of Walney, with embankments incorporating beach pebbles.
salt
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We drove back towards Titchwell Marsh, stopping to look out over the miles of salt marsh on the way.
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A low white church hovered on wood piles over a salt marsh off to the left.
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There were salt marshes on the seaward side of the coastal road and Davis had found a causeway that flanked them.
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You play over a salt marsh , or bayou, from tee to green.
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Some of these inlets lead to salt marshes and estuaries which give refuge to many other coastal birds, especially waders.
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Here is Doty describing a salt marsh near his Provincetown, Mass., home.
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Channels and salt marsh , reed beds and pools, shingle and fore shore.
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Miles of salt marsh stretched before us, reaching to the shores of the River Severn.
■ NOUN
gas
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Perhaps when unhappy people die they release an effluvium of depression, like marsh gas .
plant
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And there are marsh plants in the bossy bits and beside the little streams.
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Nearly all of the species are marsh plants which also grow on the banks of still as well as moving waters.
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Being a marsh plant , it prefers to be grown emersed.
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The stem is delicate, seldom branching, prostrate, and rooting as a marsh plant .
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Comments: Acorus is a marsh plant , and therefore does well in emerse rather than submerged conditions.
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Many species are marsh plants which have not yet been tested for use in the aquarium.
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Lapland buntings and skylarks swirled and settled, searching for the last seeds of salt marsh plants below the bank.
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This is essentially a marsh plant .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But back on the marshes and fens, who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation?
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In winter resorts to damp grassland, fresh-water margins, marshes and estuaries, often in flocks.
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She caught a few words: marsh , explosion, death.
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That's how I reached the marshes, and the churchyard.
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The marsh was not like water, and the car didn't sink to. he bottom.
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This happened with fatal consequences in 1953 when the Lee Wick wall collapsed sending water shooting over the marshes to Jaywick.
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You play over a salt marsh , or bayou, from tee to green.