salt marsh
Word forms: plural salt marshes
variable noun
A salt marsh is an area of flat, wet ground which is sometimes covered by salt water or contains areas of salt water.
salt marsh in British English
noun
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
salt marsh in American English
grassland that is periodically flooded by salt water
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