salt marsh

salt marsh

n.

Low coastal grassland frequently overflowed by the tide.

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salt marsh

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(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) an area of marshy ground that is intermittently inundated with salt water or that retains pools or rivulets of salt or brackish water, together with its characteristic halophytic vegetation

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salt marsh

A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides.

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Noun

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salt marsh - low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater fenland, marsh, marshland, fen - low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England"