marshier; marshiest
1
: resembling or constituting a marsh
marshy ground
2
: relating to or occurring in marshes
marshy vegetation
marshiness
noun
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Here, the Rufiji River rushes through the marshy floodplains and woodlands, bringing life to the largest park in all of Africa.
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Alexandra Owens, AFAR Media, 10 Feb. 2025
That night, family friends who knew the marshy, heavily wooded area well, headed out to also look for Danni.
—Lauren Clark, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2025
The largest barrier island off the coast of Georgia, Cumberland is a 17-mile-long, 36,000-acre swath of pristine beaches, tall dunes, maritime forests, fresh lakes, and marshy canals.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Feb. 2025
These bais, marshy, natural clearings dotted all around the Congo Basin, are honeypots for numerous animals—forest elephants gather here to mine the mineral-rich soil, buffaloes come to graze on plants heavy with protein.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
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Alexandra Owens, AFAR Media, 10 Feb. 2025
That night, family friends who knew the marshy, heavily wooded area well, headed out to also look for Danni.
—Lauren Clark, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2025
The largest barrier island off the coast of Georgia, Cumberland is a 17-mile-long, 36,000-acre swath of pristine beaches, tall dunes, maritime forests, fresh lakes, and marshy canals.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Feb. 2025
These bais, marshy, natural clearings dotted all around the Congo Basin, are honeypots for numerous animals—forest elephants gather here to mine the mineral-rich soil, buffaloes come to graze on plants heavy with protein.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
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“Marshy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marshy. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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