1769 W. Stork ii. 11 As the mangrove swamp is always salt, or very brakish..it will do for the cultivation of the Barilla.
1854 S. P. Woodward ii. 298 In the mud of rivers, and in mangrove swamps.
1992 C. Sargent (BNC) 34 Here and there, the sodden, pool-strewn ground is broken by outcrops of black, rotted trees, rather like the blasted remnants of a mangrove swamp.