American English pronunciation
How to pronounce marshes
IPA transcription: ['mɑɹʃəz]
Pronunciation variants: ['mɑɹʃəz]['mɑɹʃɪz]
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Noun
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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”
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United States painter (1898-1954)
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New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)
Usage examples
- The marshes also serve as a wildlife refuge, and are on the Pacific Flyway.
- The southern marshes have traditionally been home to many Marsh Arabs.
- It consists of an intricate pattern of marshes, channels, streamlets and lakes.
- Habitats of the valleys and floodplains include woodlands, marshes, fens and species-rich limestone grasslands.
- The common sundew thrives in wetlands such as marshes and fens.
- Their breeding habitat is freshwater marshes across from southeast Europe to central Asia.
- Egrets hunt and live in both saltwater and freshwater marshes.
- Brackish marshes have formed where channels and streams enter the lake.
- The marshes are characterised by mesotrophic grassland on a river valley flood plain.
- Its marshes are home to the endangered species Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse.