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noun
a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.
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Origin of salt marsh before 1000; Middle English saltmerche, Old English sealtne mersc
OTHER WORDS FROM salt marsh salt-marsh, saltmarsh, adjective
Words nearby salt marsh salt lake ,
Salt Lake City ,
saltless ,
salt lick ,
salt-losing nephritis ,
salt marsh ,
salt-marsh caterpillar ,
salt mine ,
saltness ,
Salto ,
salt of the earth
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How to use salt marsh in a sentence Among those salt marsh es, blocked from the Atlantic by the peninsula of Revere Beach, is where Saulenas bought her house in 1975.
A new target under the proposed plan seeks to restore just under 700 acres of salt marsh , a choice the city is facing right now in Mission Bay at the Kendall Frost marsh.
The Coastal Trail runs along the Gulf Coast’s beaches, dunes, tidal flats, oyster bars, and salt marsh es, fringed by pineland, scrub oak, and hardwood forests.
Biorock can also be used to restore other marine habitats such as seagrass and salt marsh es, Goreau notes.
Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
Whisk in the half and half and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.
Remove from heat and stir in the walnuts, rum, powdered sugar, and salt until fully incorporated.
Rub the loin with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.
Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.
The Afghan was true to his salt, and their own retainers, who had come with them from Lucknow, remained steadfast at this crisis.
Robert Fitzgerald received a patent in England for making salt water fresh.
The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.
Herbert Marsh, professor of divinity in the university of Cambridge, England, died.
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British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh
noun
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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Scientific definitions for salt marsh
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.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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