marshes (noun)

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• Macquarie Marshes — /məkwɒri ˈmaʃəz/ (say muhkworee mahshuhz) plural noun a large wetlands area in NSW, on the Macquarie River west of Coonamble; a Ramsar wetland site …  

• Pontine Marshes — /pɒntin ˈmaʃəz/ (say ponteen mahshuhz) plural noun an area in western Italy, south east of Rome; formerly marshy, now drained …  

• marsh elder — noun any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America • Syn: ↑iva • Hypernyms: ↑marsh plant, ↑bog plant, ↑swamp plant •… …   Useful english dictionary

• diamondback terrapin — noun of marshes along Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States • Syn: ↑Malaclemys centrata • Hypernyms: ↑terrapin • Member Holonyms: ↑Malaclemys, ↑genus Malaclemys * * * noun …   Useful english dictionary

• marsh wren — noun a wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes • Hypernyms: ↑wren, ↑jenny wren • Hyponyms: ↑long billed marsh wren, ↑Cistothorus palustris, ↑sedge wren, ↑short billed marsh wren, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• salt marsh — noun low lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater • Hypernyms: ↑marsh, ↑marshland, ↑fen, ↑fenland * * * noun Etymology: Middle English saltmersh, from salt + mersh marsh more at marsh …   Useful english dictionary

• sea aster — noun a common European aster that grows in salt marshes • Syn: ↑sea starwort, ↑Aster tripolium • Hypernyms: ↑aster * * * noun : sea starwort * * * sea aster noun …   Useful english dictionary

• sharp-tailed sparrow — noun or sharp tailed finch : a No. American sparrow (Ammospiza caudacuta) having narrow pointed tail feathers and inhabiting salt marshes * * * a sparrow, Ammospiza caudacuta, inhabiting salt marshes in North America, having narrow, sharply… …   Useful english dictionary

• groundsel tree — noun a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts • Syn: ↑groundsel bush, ↑consumption weed, ↑cotton seed tree, ↑Baccharis halimifolia • Hypernyms: ↑shrub …   Useful english dictionary

• marsh bellflower — noun bellflower common in marshes of eastern North America having lanceolate linear leaves and small whitish flowers • Syn: ↑Campanula aparinoides • Hypernyms: ↑campanula, ↑bellflower * * * noun : a bellflower (Campanula aparinoides) that is… …   Useful english dictionary

• rice rat — noun hardy agile rat of grassy marshes of Mexico and the southeastern United States • Syn: ↑Oryzomys palustris • Hypernyms: ↑rat • Member Holonyms: ↑Oryzomys, ↑genus Oryzomys * * * noun …   Useful english dictionary