An environment from which water rarely drains that supports primarily grassy vegetation and does not form peat.

Old English mersc, merisc "marsh, swamp," from Proto-Germanic *marisko (source also of Old Frisian and Old Saxon marsk "marsh," Middle Dutch mersch, Dutch mars, German Marsch, Dani [..]

wetland area usually covered by a shallow layer of seawater or freshwater. Read more in the NG Education Encyclopedia

Periodically or continually inundated areas covered with vegetation of cattails, sedges, rushes, and some woody hydrophytic plants.

a damp wetland less acidic and waterlogged than a bog.

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England&a [..]

a piece of wet swampy land which is unsafe to walk on because your feet sink down into it

Wetland without trees; in North America, this type of land is characterized by cattails and rushes. marsupial

A low-lying wetland characterized by grassy vegetation. Marshes can be composed of either fresh or salt water.

To dream of walking through marshy places, denotes illness resulting from overwork and worry. You will suffer much displeasure from the unwise conduct of a near relative.   

a waterlogged area; swampy ground without trees.

Poorly drained ground, sometimes flooded, often found next to open water.

A marsh is a type of freshwater, brackish water or saltwater wetland that is found along rivers, pond, lakes and coasts. Marsh plants grow up out of the water.

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A transition zone between water and land usually covered by grass.

An area of soft, wet or periodically inundated land, generally treeless and usually characterized by grasses and other low growth. Mean High Water

marshes are wetland areas often dominated by grasses and reeds.

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Area of salt-tolerant vegetation in brackish and (or) saline-water habitants subject to tidal inundation.

Tract of low wet ground, usually miry and covered with rank vegetation.

A type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbacious vegetation. Marshes may be fresh- or saltwater, tidal or nontidal.

A marsh is a type of freshwater, brackish water or saltwater wetland that is found along rivers, pond, lakes and coasts. Marsh plants grow up out of the water. Typically marshes are composed of grass-like herbaceous plant communities.

A frequently or continually inundated non-forested wetland characterized by vegetation adapted to saturated soil conditions.

Characterized by a mixture of cattails, bulrushes and other types of emergent aquatic vegetation. They may be seasonal or permanent and are used by a large number of birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles [..]

(1) A tract of soft, wet land, usually vegetated by reeds, grasses and occasionally small shrubs. (2) (SMP) Soft, wet area periodically or continuously flooded to a shallow depth, usually characterize [..]

A former salt marsh which has been protected by a DIKE.

A MARSH periodically flooded by salt water.

A type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation. Marshes may be either fresh or saltwater, tidal or non-tidal.

A type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation. Marshes may be either fresh or saltwater, tidal or non-tidal. (See: wetlands.)

A type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation. Marshes may be either fresh or saltwater, tidal or non-tidal. (See: wetlands.)

An area with soft, wet land (also called "wetland"). Marshes are very important because they help clean polluted water, and because many animals and plants live there.

An area of soft wet land. Flat land periodically flooded by salt water is called a salt marsh. Sometimes called SLOUGH.

an area periodically inundated and treeless and often characterized by grasses, cattails, and other monocotyledons

type of wetland ecosystem characterized by poorly drained mineral soils and by plant life dominated by grasses

an area of low-lying wetland.

an area where the land is low and wet. mate (v.):

Low lying land flooded in winter and usually watery all year round

A productive wetland, typically dominated by species of monocotyledonous angiosperm plants that grow as tall as several metres above the water surface.