marshland
Americannoun
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marshlands
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of marshland
before 1150; Middle English mershland, Old English merscland. See marsh, land
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The drone camera panned round to assess the surrounding terrain: miles of marshland pockmarked with craters from artillery strikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Nepali rescue teams battled difficult terrain, an unpredictable river and treacherous marshland on Monday, the sixth day in their search for survivors and victims of devastating floods.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
"It is very difficult for my men. The area is still flooded, and elsewhere it is all marshland," Hawadi said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Duryea’s sits on a rugged stretch of road with no sidewalks, surrounded by marshland and sparkling bay views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Chicago had been built largely on soggy marshland that flooded every time it rained.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their natural state, prioritising biodiversity over crop yield.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Its marshlands store large amounts of carbon, helping to mitigate climate change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
The western Spanish region of Extremadura, which also has substantial marshlands, has seen 17 cases.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said the diversion helped the river’s flow of sediment and relieved oversaturated marshlands, MLive.com reported.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
They emerged from the woods on top of a low bluff that marked the border of the marshlands.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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