salt marsh
a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.
Origin of salt marsh
1Other words from salt marsh
- salt-marsh, saltmarsh, adjective
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How to use salt marsh in a sentence
Among those salt marshes, blocked from the Atlantic by the peninsula of Revere Beach, is where Saulenas bought her house in 1975.
How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities | Kendra Pierre-Louis | December 13, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewA 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.
San Diego Aims to Cut Natural Gas to Buildings | MacKenzie Elmer | November 11, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe Coastal Trail runs along the Gulf Coast’s beaches, dunes, tidal flats, oyster bars, and salt marshes, fringed by pineland, scrub oak, and hardwood forests.
Biorock can also be used to restore other marine habitats such as seagrass and salt marshes, Goreau notes.
Protecting the world’s vanishing coral reefs | Ari Daniel, PhD ’08 | April 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewGhost Hawk arose like a mist from the estuary salt-marsh on the South Shore where she built her island home.
There was a salt marsh which bounded part of the mill-pond, on the edge of which the boys used to stand to fish for minnows.
The Life of Benjamin Franklin | Samuel G. Goodrich"Yes, but you said you'd help me," said the girl, walking steadily across the sand to the salt-marsh beyond.
A Sailor's Lass | Emma LeslieIn the marsh were tall waving feathery salt-marsh grasses, and little pools of murky water.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLaneNow it must look out for itself, eat, grow fat and strong, and then dig its way out into the salt-marsh.
Little Busybodies | Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia MoodyThree miles of causeway across the salt marsh brought us to the church and village of our Lady of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Mexico and its Religion | Robert A. Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh
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
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.
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