marsh

n.
An area of soft, wet, low-lying land, characterized by grassy vegetation and often forming a transition zone between water and land.

[Middle English, from Old English mersc.]

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noun

A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water: bog, fen, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, slough¹, swamp, swampland, wetland. See dry/wet.

Pertaining to or emanating from swamplands, marshes and bogs. Archetypal denizens are leeches, mangroves, baying hounds and bunyips.

• m. arrowgrass — triglochin maritima.
• m. buck — see situtunga.
• m. hawk — medium-sized, 20 inches long, gray to brown raptor bird with a distinctive white rump during flight. Called also hen harrier, Circus cyaneus.
• m. horsetail — equisetum palustre.
• m. marigold — see caltha palustris.
• m. ragwort — senecio aquaticus.

Soft, wet, low-lying land characterized by herbaceous vegetation, often forming a transition between land and water.

IN BRIEF: Land that is wet and soft all the time.

The rare frog lived only in the marsh beside the highway.

See Swamp.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - marsk, vådeng, sump

Nederlands (Dutch)
moeras

Français (French)
n. - marécage, marais

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sumpf

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βάλτος, έλος

Italiano (Italian)
palude

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pântano (m)

Русский (Russian)
болото

Español (Spanish)
n. - pantano, ciénaga, marisma

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sumpmark

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
沼泽, 湿地

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 沼澤, 濕地

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 늪, 축축한 지역

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 沼地, 湿地

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مستنقع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ביצה, אדמת בוץ‬

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