Fen

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  • noun. An area of low wet land having peaty soil and typically being less acidic than a bog.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To forbid: same as fend : used in this form by boys in marbles and other games, in an exclamatory way, to check or block, according to understood rules, some move of an opposing player.
  • noun. Low land covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; a bog; a marsh: as, the bogs in Ireland, or the fens in Lincolnshire, Kent, and Cambridgeshire, England.
  • noun. Mud; mire.
  • noun. A disease affecting hops, caused by a quick-growing moss or mold. Imp. Dict.
  • noun. A section in the work of the Arabic physician Avicenna, called the Canon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
  • noun. a boat of light draught used in marshes.
  • noun. a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler.
  • noun. any water fowl that frequent fens.
  • noun. the graylag goose of Europe.
  • noun. swamp land.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A plural form of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
  • noun. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline.
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  • noun. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
  • noun. 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China
  • Word Usage
    "This year it was awarded to Ă…con, a Finnish convention that strives to bring together fen from the Nordic countries."
    cross-reference
    bog  everglade  marsh  swamp  wetland  
    Form
    fenlike  fennish  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adrienne  Amen  Ben  Cayenne  Chen  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Lowlands  bog  estuary  farmland  fenny  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    marsh  moor