salt marsh

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noun

a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.

Origin of salt marsh

before 1000; Middle English saltmerche,Old English sealtne mersc

OTHER WORDS FROM salt marsh

salt-marsh, saltmarsh, adjective

Words nearby salt marsh

salt lake, Salt Lake City, saltless, salt lick, salt-losing nephritis, salt marsh, salt-marsh caterpillar, salt mine, saltness, Salto, salt of the earth

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Example sentences from the Web for salt marsh

Steered east for twelve miles, over spinifex sand-hills with some salt-marsh flats intervening.
Explorations in Australia|John Forrest
Many of the salt-marsh plants seen in the Feejees, were also observed here.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898|Various
We were several miles up the salt-marsh, and to go down to the ocean was quite a voyage to Felipa.
Rodman the Keeper|Constance Fenimore Woolson
Thus the station of a plant may be a salt-marsh, a hill-side, the bed of the sea, or a stagnant pool.
Principles of Geology|Charles Lyell

The rattletrap followed the long causeway which crossed the salt-marsh and the San Sebastian River.
Horace Chase|Constance Fenimore Woolson

British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh

salt marsh

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

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Scientific definitions for salt marsh

salt marsh

A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides.

单词	salt marsh
释义	salt marsh SEE SYNONYMS FOR salt marsh ON THESAURUS.COM noun a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea. Origin of salt marsh before 1000; Middle English saltmerche,Old English sealtne mersc OTHER WORDS FROM salt marsh salt-marsh, saltmarsh, adjective Words nearby salt marsh salt lake, Salt Lake City, saltless, salt lick, salt-losing nephritis, salt marsh, salt-marsh caterpillar, salt mine, saltness, Salto, salt of the earth Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for salt marsh Steered east for twelve miles, over spinifex sand-hills with some salt-marsh flats intervening. Explorations in Australia\|John Forrest Many of the salt-marsh plants seen in the Feejees, were also observed here. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898\|Various We were several miles up the salt-marsh, and to go down to the ocean was quite a voyage to Felipa. Rodman the Keeper\|Constance Fenimore Woolson Thus the station of a plant may be a salt-marsh, a hill-side, the bed of the sea, or a stagnant pool. Principles of Geology\|Charles Lyell The rattletrap followed the long causeway which crossed the salt-marsh and the San Sebastian River. Horace Chase\|Constance Fenimore Woolson British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh salt marsh 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 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to salt marsh badlands, alkali flat Scientific definitions for salt marsh salt marsh A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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salt marsh

noun

Origin of salt marsh

OTHER WORDS FROM salt marsh

Words nearby salt marsh

Example sentences from the Web for salt marsh

British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh

noun

Words related to salt marsh

Scientific definitions for salt marsh