American English pronunciation

How to pronounce marshes

IPA transcription: ['mɑɹʃəz]

Pronunciation variants: ['mɑɹʃəz]['mɑɹʃɪz]

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Noun

  • 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”

  • United States painter (1898-1954)

  • 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.