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All wetlands synonyms

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noun wetlands

  • swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
  • lowland — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
  • marshland — a region, area, or district characterized by marshes, swamps, bogs, or the like.
  • fen — low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
  • marsh — Dame (Edith) Ngaio [nahy-oh] /ˈnaɪ oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1982, New Zealand writer of detective novels.
  • mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
  • morass — a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
  • mossHoward, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
  • peat — a merry young girl; darling (used as a term of endearment).
  • quag — a quagmire.
  • quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
  • slough — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
  • sump — a pit, well, or the like in which water or other liquid is collected.
  • salt marsh — a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.
  • flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
  • mud flat — the muddy, nearly level bed of a dry lake.
  • tidal pool — a pool of water remaining on a reef, shore platform, or beach after the tide has receded.
  • tideland — land alternately exposed and covered by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide.
  • bog — A bog is an area of land which is very wet and muddy.
  • estuary — The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
  • swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
  • wetland — Often, wetlands. land that has a wet and spongy soil, as a marsh, swamp, or bog.
  • everglade — A marshy tract of land that is mostly under water and covered with tall grass.
  • moor — a Muslim of the mixed Berber and Arab people inhabiting NW Africa.
  • glade — an open space in a forest.
  • mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
  • polder — a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.
  • swale — a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
  • holm — Hanya [hahn-ye] /ˌhɑn yɛ/ (Show IPA), 1895?–1992, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher; born in Germany.
  • muskeg — a bog of northern North America, commonly having sphagnum mosses, sedge, and sometimes stunted black spruce and tamarack trees.
  • peat bog — a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
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