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Meanings of marshland in English

Portuguese
brejo
Catalan
pantà
Spanish
marisma

Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water.

        brejo
        Usage of marshland in English
        1
        This was marshland, and it spread out before them miles in extent.
        The King's Arrow: A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists
        2
        All that might be heard in woodland edges, marshland or treed areas.
        The Irish Times
        3
        All the marshland and the woodland where no people live is mine.
        Viking Tales
        4
        Faint wreaths of mist were rising up from over the shadowy marshland.
        A Lost Leader
        5
        The Captain saw two wide, muddy creeks snaking through the marshland below.
        The Child Thief
        6
        The spot had looked a lot like the marshland below Santos' deck.
        Mission road
        7
        There were two narrow strips of marshland, and rivers in the mountains.
        The dark side of the sun
        8
        To Eddie, it looked like flat water standing in a vast marshland.
        Wizard and glass
        9
        River became torrent, marshland a vast lake cut through by swift currents.
        The Irish Times
        10
        The day Rhius was killed, Erius ordered us into marshland on horseback.
        The Bone Doll's Twin
        11
        We ran for ten minutes across marshland to the nearest road.
        Class of 88
        12
        Two days ago they deployed helicopters to spray the nearby marshland with pesticides.
        The Irish Times
        13
        They have searched the woods, and the marshland, and the roadways.
        Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
        14
        One of my earliest recollections is of a dreary marshland by the sea.
        John Ingerfield, and Other Stories
        15
        As Stephen gazed northwards, he saw nothing but a desolate marshland and swamp.
        The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
        16
        Though a marshland is always open it is still curiously secret.
        Alarms and Discursions
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        Spanish
        marisma
        Marshland through the time
        Marshland across language varieties
        United States of America
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