marsh
/mɑːʃ
/noun
An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times: the marsh marigold loves damp fields, riverbanks, and marshes [mass noun]: patches of marsh [as modifier]: marsh plants...
- It is a large fresh water lake associated with marshes on the flood plains of the river.
- Until late October the birds may be found on estuaries, flooded coastal marshes and farm reservoirs.
- The Romans became practised at draining marshes to rid areas of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Synonyms
swamp, marshland, bog, peat bog, swampland, morass, mire, quagmire, quag, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, sump;
salt marsh, saltings, salina;
North American bayou, pocosin, moor;
Scottish & Northern English moss;
Irish corcass
archaic marish
Origin
Old English mer(i)sc (perhaps influenced by late Latin mariscus 'marsh'), of West Germanic origin.
Rhymes
- blood gill
- blood-giving
- blood glucose
- blood-gout
- blood groove
- blood group
- blood grouping
- bloodguilt
- bloodguiltiness
- bloodguilty
- blood heat
- blood horse
- bloodhot
- bloodhound
- bloodhounding
- bloodhouse
- blood-hunter
- bloodily
- Blood Indian
- bloodiness
- blood injury
- blood iron
- bloodish
- blood issue
- blood is thicker than water