noun. An area of low-lying land that is usually saturated with water and is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plants.

noun. A tract of water-soaked or partially overflowed land; wet, miry, or swampy ground; a piece of low ground usually more or less wet by reason of overflow, or scattered pools, but often nearly or wholly dry in certain seasons; a swamp; a fen. Low land subject to overflow by the tides is called salt-marsh or tide-marsh.

noun. In Australia, a drained meadow. See the extract.

noun. A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

noun. a plant (Nartheeium ossifragum) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel.

noun. a plant (Potentilla palustris) having purple flowers, and found growing in marshy places; marsh five-finger.

noun. In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes (Iva frutescens).

noun. See Marsh cinquefoil (above).

noun. See under Gas.

noun. a genus (Spartina) of coarse grasses growing in marshes; -- called also cord grass. The tall Spartina cynosuroides is not good for hay unless cut very young. The low Spartina juncea is a common component of salt hay.

noun. a European hawk or harrier (Circus æruginosus); -- called also marsh hawk, moor hawk, moor buzzard, puttock.

noun. The marsh harrier.

noun. a rail; esp., Rallus elegans of fresh-water marshes, and Rallus longirostris of salt-water marshes.

noun. a plant of the genus Althæa ( Althæa officinalis) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent.

noun. See in the Vocabulary.

noun. any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; -- called also water pennywort.

noun. the meadow lark.

noun. a plant of the genus Statice (Statice Limonium), common in salt marshes. Its root is powerfully astringent, and is sometimes used in medicine. Called also sea lavender.

noun. a plant (Salicornia herbacea) found along seacoasts. See Glasswort.

noun. an American herb (Elodes Virginica) with small opposite leaves and flesh-colored flowers.

noun. Same as Labrador tea.

noun. Same as Buckbean.

noun. any species of small American wrens of the genus Cistothorus, and allied genera. They chiefly inhabit salt marshes.

noun. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

noun. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

noun. United States painter (1898-1954)

noun. New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)

"Scientistific reports that the marsh is recovering and the oil damage may not be as bad as once thought are met with skepticism by the fishing community here."

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