单词	marsh
释义	marshmarsh /mɑːʃ $ mɑːrʃ/ noun [countable, uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINmarsh Origin: Old English merisc, mersc Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But back on the marshes and fens, who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation? In winter resorts to damp grassland, fresh-water margins, marshes and estuaries, often in flocks. She caught a few words: marsh, explosion, death. That's how I reached the marshes, and the churchyard. The marsh was not like water, and the car didn't sink to. he bottom. This happened with fatal consequences in 1953 when the Lee Wick wall collapsed sending water shooting over the marshes to Jaywick. You play over a salt marsh, or bayou, from tee to green. Thesaurus THESAURUS► marsh an area of low flat ground that is always wet and soft, that often has grasses or reeds growing in it but no trees: · The low hills you can see are like islands surrounded by the marsh.· Miles of salt marsh (=which has salt water under it because it is near the sea) stretched before us, reaching to the shores of the River Severn.· Hackney Marshes· the rustling of the marsh grass ► swamp land that is always very wet or covered with a layer of water, that often has trees growing in it – used especially about areas in hot countries: · the swamps of Florida· Less than 200 years ago, the city was a swamp, infested by mosquitoes. ► bog an area of low wet muddy ground, sometimes with bushes or grasses growing in it: · His foot started slowly sinking into the bog.· The destruction of peat bogs is contributing to global warming, according to a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth. ► wetland an area of land that is partly covered with water, and that has grasses and other plants growing in it – often used about areas that are important to birds or wildlife: · The ecosystem of the world 's largest wetland, the Pantanal in southwest Brazil, is being threatened by tourists.· wetland birds ► fen a large area of low flat wet land – used especially about the area of this type of land in eastern England in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, which is known as the Fens: · He grew up in the Fens· Intensive cultivation and continued drainage of the Fens further accelerates the degradation of the land. ► mire literary an area of wet muddy ground, which people and vehicles etc get stuck in: · The wagon was stuck fast in the mire.· The rain was turning the highway into a mire. WORD SETS► Geography abyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► coastal · One or two pairs breed in coastal marshes.· Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.· Cattle fattening on the coastal marshes supported a prosperous peasantry as in Lincolnshire.· Margins of fresh and coastal water, marshes and cultivated land.· In winter on estuaries, coastal marshes and farmland.· The monks of Furness reclaimed the coastal marshes of Walney, with embankments incorporating beach pebbles. ► salt · We drove back towards Titchwell Marsh, stopping to look out over the miles of salt marsh on the way.· A low white church hovered on wood piles over a salt marsh off to the left.· There were salt marshes on the seaward side of the coastal road and Davis had found a causeway that flanked them.· You play over a salt marsh, or bayou, from tee to green.· Some of these inlets lead to salt marshes and estuaries which give refuge to many other coastal birds, especially waders.· Here is Doty describing a salt marsh near his Provincetown, Mass., home.· Channels and salt marsh, reed beds and pools, shingle and fore shore.· Miles of salt marsh stretched before us, reaching to the shores of the River Severn. NOUN► gas · Perhaps when unhappy people die they release an effluvium of depression, like marsh gas. ► plant · And there are marsh plants in the bossy bits and beside the little streams.· Nearly all of the species are marsh plants which also grow on the banks of still as well as moving waters.· Being a marsh plant, it prefers to be grown emersed.· The stem is delicate, seldom branching, prostrate, and rooting as a marsh plant.· Comments: Acorus is a marsh plant, and therefore does well in emerse rather than submerged conditions.· Many species are marsh plants which have not yet been tested for use in the aquarium.· Lapland buntings and skylarks swirled and settled, searching for the last seeds of salt marsh plants below the bank.· This is essentially a marsh plant. an area of low flat ground that is always wet and soft → bog, swamp—marshy adjective:  The crane lives in marshy habitats.THESAURUSmarsh an area of low flat ground that is always wet and soft, that often has grasses or reeds growing in it but no trees: · The low hills you can see are like islands surrounded by the marsh.· Miles of salt marsh (=which has salt water under it because it is near the sea) stretched before us, reaching to the shores of the River Severn.· Hackney Marshes· the rustling of the marsh grassswamp land that is always very wet or covered with a layer of water, that often has trees growing in it – used especially about areas in hot countries: · the swamps of Florida· Less than 200 years ago, the city was a swamp, infested by mosquitoes.bog an area of low wet muddy ground, sometimes with bushes or grasses growing in it: · His foot started slowly sinking into the bog.· The destruction of peat bogs is contributing to global warming, according to a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth.wetland an area of land that is partly covered with water, and that has grasses and other plants growing in it – often used about areas that are important to birds or wildlife: · The ecosystem of the world 's largest wetland, the Pantanal in southwest Brazil, is being threatened by tourists.· wetland birdsfen a large area of low flat wet land – used especially about the area of this type of land in eastern England in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, which is known as the Fens: · He grew up in the Fens· Intensive cultivation and continued drainage of the Fens further accelerates the degradation of the land.mire literary an area of wet muddy ground, which people and vehicles etc get stuck in: · The wagon was stuck fast in the mire.· The rain was turning the highway into a mire.
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