Marsh

What do we mean by marsh?

An area of low-lying land that is usually saturated with water and is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plants. noun

A tract of water-soaked or partially overflowed land; wet, miry, or swampy ground; a piece of low ground usually more or less wet by reason of overflow, or scattered pools, but often nearly or wholly dry in certain seasons; a swamp; a fen. Low land subject to overflow by the tides is called salt-marsh or tide-marsh. noun

In Australia, a drained meadow. See the extract. noun

A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. noun

A plant (Nartheeium ossifragum) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel. noun

A plant (Potentilla palustris) having purple flowers, and found growing in marshy places; marsh five-finger. noun

In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes (Iva frutescens). noun

See Marsh cinquefoil (above). noun

See under Gas. noun

A genus (Spartina) of coarse grasses growing in marshes; -- called also cord grass. The tall Spartina cynosuroides is not good for hay unless cut very young. The low Spartina juncea is a common component of salt hay. noun

A European hawk or harrier (Circus æruginosus); -- called also marsh hawk, moor hawk, moor buzzard, puttock. noun

The marsh harrier. noun

A rail; esp., Rallus elegans of fresh-water marshes, and Rallus longirostris of salt-water marshes. noun

A plant of the genus Althæa ( Althæa officinalis) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent. noun

See in the Vocabulary. noun

Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; -- called also water pennywort. noun

The meadow lark. noun

A plant of the genus Statice (Statice Limonium), common in salt marshes. Its root is powerfully astringent, and is sometimes used in medicine. Called also sea lavender. noun

A plant (Salicornia herbacea) found along seacoasts. See Glasswort. noun

An American herb (Elodes Virginica) with small opposite leaves and flesh-colored flowers. noun

An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

Words that are spelled similarly to marsh:
marsh, march, harsh, mars, mash, marse, karsh, marah, marsa, marth, marsch, marash, barsh, marsi, warsh, arsh, maresh, marish, maish, mersh, marh, marso, marsk, mrsh, marss, earsh, smarsh, marsg, marsp.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word marsh:
fritillary, marigold, harrier, warbler, wetland, orchid, rat, bog, wetlands, swamp, tidal, drained, grassland, meadow, estuary, cope, vegetation, arabs, frog, freshwater, aquatic, rice, wildlife, rats, refuge, habitat, grass, woodland, pond, salt, creek, drainage, reed, birds, mouse, endangered, deer, wet, preserve, endemic, lock, bird, plants, harbour, sand, breeding, reserve, acres, mall, species.

Words that rhyme with marsh:
harsh, marche, karsh, saltmarsh, harsch, barsh, barsch, marsch, whitmarsh, larsh.

Adjectives that are often used to describe marsh:
tidal, great, salt, large, high, freshwater, low, extensive, coastal, small, vast, the, open, deep, brackish, wide, green, fresh, stagnant, shallow, flat, wet, natural, broad, water, reedy, big, upper, nearby, late, lower, swampy, adjacent, huge, frozen, impassable, moreton, dry, reclaimed, former, muddy, acre, grassy, intertidal, immense, desolate, pestilential, neighbouring, wild, largest, dreary, reed, emergent, narrow, mere, sandy, sea, treacherous, boggy, estuarine, tule, middle, typical, stygian, soft, distant, enormous, lonely, lying, salty, burgh, malarial, impenetrable, unhealthy, romney, neighboring, sedgy.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective marsh:
gas, land, grass, lands, plants, mallow, vegetation, birds, mallows, hen, marigold, marigolds, species, mosquitoes, grasses, dwellers, soils, water, fever, communities, hens, hay, plant, fire, mosquito, areas, lights, deer, mud, caterpillar, fires, area, sediments, hawk, meadows, habitats, meadow, pools, bird, habitat, ecosystem, country, environment, fowl, flags, flowers, warbler, wrens, light, worm, formation, deposits, estuaries, harrier, complex, reeds, flower, zone, soil, region, dweller, orchids, stagnancy, community, peat, miasm, herbs, creeks, worms, elder, grounds, ally, ecology, frog, weeds, clay, sparrows, blossoms, islands, fog, breeding, populations, geese, estuary, poison, fevers, hawks, zones, edge, mill, folk.

Consonant match to marsh:
marche, marsch, morsch.

Words that sound like marsh:
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