salt marsh

American  

noun

1. a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.

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salt marsh British  

noun

1. an area of marshy ground that is intermittently inundated with salt water or that retains pools or rivulets of salt or brackish water, together with its characteristic halophytic vegetation

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salt marsh Scientific  

1. A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides.

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Other Word Forms

• salt-marsh
  adjective
• saltmarsh
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of salt marsh

before 1000; Middle English saltmerche, Old English sealtne mersc

Example Sentences

Salt marsh below the railroad bridge over the river.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various