swampy
adjective
of the nature of, resembling, or abounding in swamps.
swampiness
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a word derived from
swampy.
Example Sentences
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Jeroen Geurts, an ecologist at the Dutch water research institute KWR, wants the country to embrace its natural swampiness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
"Milly's Garden" roams casually, like an Allman Brothers jam minus the swampiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2015
The swampiness keeps most larger animals, such as forest elephants and leopards, away, but small animals, including river hogs, thrive.
From Washington Post
There are few rapid streams around the vicinity of Sycamore, most of them being sluggish to the point of swampiness.
From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Laura Lee Hope
Near the south-east end is a shallow reedy mere, fringed by a fertile swampiness, which produces extraordinary crops of grass far out into the middle of the level.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
