marsh
noun
[ mɑːʃ ]
• 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"
Similar:
swamp,
marshland,
bog,
peat bog,
swampland,
morass,
mire,
quagmire,
quag,
slough,
fen,
fenland,
wetland,
sump,
salt marsh,
saltings,
salina,
bayou,
pocosin,
moor,
moss,
corcass,
marish,
Origin:
Old English mer(i)sc (perhaps influenced by late Latin mariscus ‘marsh’), of West Germanic origin.
