单词 | salt marsh |
释义 | salt marshn. a. Marsh overflowed or flooded by the sea; spec. one in which the sea water is collected for the manufacture of salt. (Cf. salting n. 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > salt-marsh salt marshc1000 salinec1450 salt1621 salina1697 salt-pan1785 maremma1819 shott1878 pré salé1903 c1000 Ags. Ps. cvi. 33 He þa weaxendan wende eorðan on sealtne mersc [L. in salsuginem]. So: a1300 Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter cvi. 34 Stremes in wildernes sete he..In salt-mersche land fruitberande. a1325 Prose Psalter cvi[i]. 33 Saltmerche.] a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 53 Good kyne go in good pasture off salt maries. 1583 in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 234 If any lands or salt marsh are reclaimed from the sea. 1686 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1836) VI. 183 It is ordered, that Patience..shall haue..the vse of about two acres of salt marish att the island. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Salt-marsh, a sort of Grazing Ground near the Sea, which is commonly very rich land. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Salt Low Marshy Grounds, disposed by Nature for the Reception of the Sea-waters when the Tide swells, and provided with Banks and Sluices to retain the same, are called a Salt-marsh. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 95 In muddy salt-marshes. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Mariana in South in Poems (new ed.) 20 Down in the dry salt-marshes stood That house darklatticed. b. attributive, in specific names of plants and animals found on salt marshes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > aquatic > marine > found on salt marshes salt marshc1682 saline1802 the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > found on salt marshes or near sea seafaring1670 salt marsh1861 saline1866 c1682 J. Hull Observable Passages of Providence in Archaeologia Americana (1857) 3 243 The hay in a barn fired; but, being salt-marsh hay, it smothered. 1855 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 2) xvii. 462 The salt-marsh shrimp, Artemia salinus. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 198 The Salt-marsh Club rush (Scirpus maritimus). 1862 Harper's Mag. Nov. 737/2 ‘Salt-marsh fly’—is a nuisance found everywhere..near salt marshes. 1873 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1871–2 12 475 The salt-marsh terrapin. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Aug. 4/7 The salt marsh mosquito causes intense discomfort. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xxii. 592 Salt-marsh Mosquito: Aedes sollicitans. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xxii. 592 The California Salt-marsh Mosquito..breeds in salt marshes and tide pools along the Pacific coast. c. attributive in general use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > salt-marsh salt1279 salt marsh1937 1937 Discovery Apr. 98/2 The occupation was brought to an end with the onset of salt-marsh conditions. 1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 91 The salt-marsh hayfields are favorite stopping-places for geese and ducks on their northward flight. 1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles vii. 180 Later stages in the saltmarsh succession form good sheep pasture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1000 |
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