noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a woodland/wetland/grassland/marshland habitat (= a place in a wood, etc where animals and plants live or grow )
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The owl inhabits woodland habitats from Scotland to southern Spain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I had a vision that led me straight through the marshland like a fledged arrow to its mark.
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Farms on the Fens today have all the crops grown in East Anglia, but the Fens was once a vast marshland .
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He bought the light and many acres of marshland and salting surrounding it.
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In the countryside, large working farms interrupted a landscape of mountains, meadow, marshland , and abandoned quarries.
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It declined by slow attrition, rather than On the grand scale of its swarming marshland relatives.
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Most of the surrounding marshland had fallen to the crippling infection.
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The North Star was rolling past the wooded marshland on the northern part of the island to the Jurong Road.
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These conditions are best met in low-lying areas that were once marshland , and which still lie above a plentiful water table.