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
Though its distance was not more than twelve miles from the coast, the journey proved to be very fatiguing, owing to the swampiness of the ground between the mountain and the sea.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
The camping-ground was a bad one, lying as it did in a bowl formed by a circle of low hills; and it was soaked and spongy to a degree approaching absolute swampiness.
From From Yauco to Las Marias A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan by Karl Stephen Herrman
