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marsh

(märsh)

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

[Middle English, from Old English mersc; see mori- in Indo-European roots.]

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marsh

(mɑːʃ)

(Physical Geography) low poorly drained land that is sometimes flooded and often lies at the edge of lakes, streams, etc. Compare swamp¹

[Old English merisc; related to German Marsch, Dutch marsk; related to mere²]

ˈmarshˌlike adj

Marsh

(mɑːʃ)

1. (Biography) Dame (Edith) Ngaio (ˈnaɪəʊ). 1899–1981, New Zealand crime writer, living in Britain (from 1928). Her many detective novels include Final Curtain (1947) and Last Ditch (1977)

2. (Biography) Rodney (William). born 1947, Australian cricketer: a wicketkeeper, he took 355 dismissals in 96 test matches (1970–84)

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marsh

(mɑrʃ)

n.

a tract of waterlogged soil, typically treeless and covered with emersed rushes, cattails, and other tall grasses.

[before 900; Old English mer(i)sc. See mere², -ish¹]

marsh′like`, adj.

marsh

(märsh)

An area of low-lying wet land, often having an abundance of reeds and rushes.

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Noun	1.	marsh - 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" fenland, marshland, fen salt marsh - low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater wetland - a low area where the land is saturated with water
	2.	Marsh - United States painter (1898-1954) Reginald Marsh
	3.	Marsh - New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982) Ngaio Marsh

marsh

noun swamp, moss (Scot. & Northern English dialect), bog, slough, fen, quagmire, morass a recently reclaimed saltwater marsh

Related words
adjective paludal

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marsh

noun

A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water:

bog, fen, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, slough, swamp, swampland, wetland.

Translations

سِبْخَةٌمُسْتَنْقَع، سَبْخَه

блатомочурищетресавище

bažina

marskmosesump

Sumpf Marsch Marshmallow Moor Bruch

βάλτος

ciénaga marisma pantano

lodu

marskimaasuo

marais marécage

močvara

mocsár

mýrimÿri

palude pantano acquitrino

沼湿原湿地

습지

palus

liūnaspelkėpelkinis

purvs

močvirje

kärrmyr

บึง

bataklık

đầm lầy

沼泽湿地

marsh

[mɑːʃ]

A. N → pantano m, ciénaga f; (= salt marsh) → marisma f

B. CPD marsh fever N → paludismo m
marsh gas N → gas m de los pantanos, metano m
marsh marigold N → botón m de oro
marsh warbler N → papamoscas m inv

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marsh

[ˈmɑː^rʃ] n → marais m, marécage m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

marsh

n → Sumpf m

marsh

marsh gas

n → Methangas nt, → Sumpf- or Grubengas nt

marshland

n → Marschland nt

marshmallow

n (= sweet) → Marshmallow nt; (Bot) → Eibisch m

marsh marigold

n → Sumpfdotterblume f

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marsh

[mɑːʃ] n → palude f

marsh

(maːʃ) noun

(an area of) soft wet land. The heavy rainfall turned the land into a marsh.

ˈmarshy adjective

ˈmarshiness noun

marsh

→ سِبْخَةٌ bažina marsk Sumpf βάλτος marisma suo marais močvara palude 沼 습지 moeras sump bagno pântano болото myr บึง bataklık đầm lầy 湿地

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The marsh was steaming in the strong sun, and the outline of the Spy-glass trembled through the haze.

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When Professor Marsh was out here hunting bones for the chapel of Yale University he found skeletons of horses no bigger than a fox, bedded in the rocks, and he said they were ancestors of my father.

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Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.

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The marsh was awake all round him, for in the spring the Bird People sleep very lightly, and companies of them were coming or going the night through.

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We see this on every mountain, in every lake and marsh. For Alpine species, excepting in so far as the same forms, chiefly of plants, have spread widely throughout the world during the recent Glacial epoch, are related to those of the surrounding lowlands;--thus we have in South America, Alpine humming-birds, Alpine rodents, Alpine plants, &c., all of strictly American forms, and it is obvious that a mountain, as it became slowly upheaved, would naturally be colonised from the surrounding lowlands.

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One of them said, "The Sun, now while he is single, parches up the marsh, and compels us to die miserably in our arid homes.

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It was a sort of island of solid ground in the midst of an immense marsh. Around this fragment of terra firma grew reeds as lofty as trees are in Europe, and stretching away out of sight.

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Come, forget it all and take a walk with me -- a ramble back through the woods beyond the marsh. There should be something there I want to show you."

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It was built upon a vast site, independent at once of the plain and of the river, because it was almost a marsh fed by springs and kept up by rains.

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I never thought but you were sunk in the Blackhorse marsh, and missy with you, till master told me you'd been found, and he'd lodged you here!

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As regards action, he ought above all things to keep his men well organized and drilled, to follow incessantly the chase, by which he accustoms his body to hardships, and learns something of the nature of localities, and gets to find out how the mountains rise, how the valleys open out, how the plains lie, and to understand the nature of rivers and marshes, and in all this to take the greatest care.

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He sent the saddle without an answer, and with a sense of having done something shameful; he handed over all the now revolting business of the estate to the bailiff, and set off next day to a remote district to see his friend Sviazhsky, who had splendid marshes for grouse in his neighborhood, and had lately written to ask him to keep a long-standing promise to stay with him.