swamp vegetation

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• Swamp Sparrow — Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) …   Wikipedia

• swamp — [n] wet land covered with vegetation bog, bottoms, everglade, fen, glade, holm, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, mud, muskeg, peat bog, polder, quag, quagmire, slough, swale, swampland; concept 509 swamp [v] overwhelm, flood beset, besiege,… …   New thesaurus

• Swamp — A swamp is a wetland featuring temporary or permanent inundation of large areas of land, by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a substantial number of hammocks, or dry land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation… …   Wikipedia

• swamp — swampish, adj. /swomp/, n. 1. a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation. v.t. 2. to flood or drench with water or the like. 3. Naut. to sink or fill (a boat) with… …   Universalium

• Swamp Wallaby — Taxobox name = Swamp WallabyMSW3 Groves|pages=70|id=11000314] status = LC status system = iucn3.1 status ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 2000 | id = 40575 | title = Wallabia bicolor |… …   Wikipedia

• swamp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. swampland, marsh, bog, wetland, moor, slough, fen, morass, quagmire. v. t. submerge, sink, flood, inundate, immerse, drench, deluge; over whelm, snow under. See moisture, water. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn …   English dictionary for students

• Swamp Harrier — Kahu redirects here. For aircraft, see Project KAHU. For the Royal New Zealand Navy ships, see HMNZS Kahu. Swamp Harrier Adult female standing over a dead hare …   Wikipedia

• Vegetation of New England and the Maritime Provinces — This area is dominated by a forest ecoregion called the New England Acadian forests which is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest. [ [http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/50410.htm Bioimages on Vanderbilt.edu: New England/Acadian… …   Wikipedia

• swamp — I. noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of Middle English sompe, from Middle Dutch somp morass; akin to Middle High German sumpf marsh, Greek somphos spongy Date: 1624 1. a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water; especially… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• swamp — 1) a type of wetland that is dominated by woody vegetation and does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits. Swamps may be fresh water or saltwater and tidal or nontidal 2) a small, flat bottomed row boat (Newfoundland). Also called swamp bottom …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• swamp — [[t]swɒmp[/t]] n. 1) ecl a tract of wet, spongy land, usu. with abundant vegetation 2) to flood or drench, esp. with water 3) naut. navig. to sink or fill (a boat) with water 4) to overwhelm, esp. to overwhelm with an excess of something: swamped …   From formal English to slang