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noun

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

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RELATED WORDS

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Nearby words

salt ii, salt junk, salt lake, salt lake city, salt lick, salt marsh, salt mine, salt of the earth, salt of the earth, the, salt of the earth, ye are the, salt out

Origin of salt marsh

before 1000; Middle English saltmerche, Old English sealtne mersc

Related forms

salt-marsh, salt·marsh, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh

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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Science definitions for salt marsh

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.
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