marsh
noun
a tract of low wet land, often treeless and periodically inundated, generally characterized by a growth of grasses, sedges, cattails, and rushes.
marshlike
-
a word derived from
marsh.
Example Sentences
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Skirting the edge of the marshlike depression which acted as a holding cup for the upper snows, they at last headed it and caught the ultimate trickle that came in beyond it.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
