marsh
31marsh */ — UK [mɑː(r)ʃ] / US [mɑrʃ] noun [countable] Word forms marsh : singular marsh plural marshes an area of soft wet land …
32marsh — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English mersh, from Old English merisc, mersc; akin to Middle Dutch mersch marsh, Old English mere sea, pool more at marine Date: before 12th century a tract of soft wet land usually characterized… …
33marsh — n. [A.S. mersc, marsh] An area of wet soil …
34marsh — [OE] The immediate origin of marsh is Germanic: it comes from a prehistoric West Germanic. *marisk , which also produced German marsch and Dutch marsk. This was probably a derivative of Germanic *mari ‘sea’ (source of English mere ‘lake’), whose… …
35marsh — Periodically wet or continually flooded areas with the surface not deeply submerged. Covered dominantly with sedges, cattails, rushes, or other hydrophytic plants. Compare: salt marsh, swamp, bog, fen. GSST …
36marsh — [[t]mɑ͟ː(r)ʃ[/t]] marshes N VAR A marsh is a wet, muddy area of land. Syn: bog …
37marsh — noun a pair of great blue herons made regular visits to the marsh Syn: swamp, marshland, bog, peat bog, muskeg, swampland, morass, mire, moor, quagmire, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, bayou …
38marsh — [[t]mɑrʃ[/t]] n. ecl a tract of waterlogged soil, typically treeless and covered with emersed rushes, cattails, and other tall grasses • Etymology: bef. 900; OE mer(i) sc. See mere II, ish I marsh′like , adj …
39Marsh — /maʃ/ (say mahsh) noun 1. Graham, born 1944, Australian professional golfer. 2. Jan (Jeanette Isabel Marsh), born 1948, Australian trade union advocate and industrial relations commissioner. 3. Rodney William, born 1947, Australian cricketer,… …
40marsh — pelkė statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Labai drėgnas sausumos plotas, apaugęs drėgmę mėgstančiais augalais, dažnai su durpių klodu. Pelkės susidaro, kai supelkėja sausuma arba kai užauga vandens telkinys. Pagal mitybos… …
