often attributive
: a tract of soft wet land usually characterized by monocotyledons (such as grasses or cattails)
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a wide expanse of marsh
the marshes along the coast support a remarkable profusion of plants and animals
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As the name suggests, this seafood boil first bubbled up in South Carolina’s Lowcountry—an area of marshes and waterways along the state’s coast.
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Jessica Saari Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2025
According the commission, the state regulatory agency that oversees the bay, Marin County is facing about $17 billion in expenses to build adaptation projects, such as living shorelines, marshes and potentially seawalls and levees, to protect itself from inundation.
—Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
Throughout the marshes and along sandy beaches, visitors will see pelicans wading around piers with their gular pouches full of fish, ospreys, warblers, terns, herons, egrets, black-necked stilts, and roseate spoonbills, which are a vibrant bubblegum-pink color, due to their shrimp diet.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2025
The recycled trees are placed in the wetlands at Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge to help protect the natural marsh and shoreline by reducing wave action and slowing erosion, according to officials.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025
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Jessica Saari Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2025
According the commission, the state regulatory agency that oversees the bay, Marin County is facing about $17 billion in expenses to build adaptation projects, such as living shorelines, marshes and potentially seawalls and levees, to protect itself from inundation.
—Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
Throughout the marshes and along sandy beaches, visitors will see pelicans wading around piers with their gular pouches full of fish, ospreys, warblers, terns, herons, egrets, black-necked stilts, and roseate spoonbills, which are a vibrant bubblegum-pink color, due to their shrimp diet.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2025
The recycled trees are placed in the wetlands at Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge to help protect the natural marsh and shoreline by reducing wave action and slowing erosion, according to officials.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Marsh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marsh. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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marsh
noun
: an area of soft wet land usually overgrown by grasses and sedges
marshy
adjective
ˈmär-shē
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