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Meanings of swampland in English

Portuguese
pãntano

Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

        pãntano

        Space of semiclassical field theories that cannot be consistently embedded in string theory.

              Usage of swampland in English
              1
              It was a marsh, swampland, groaning under the weight of constant construction.
              Caught
              2
              This, they hope, will draw water from their flooded shacks and surrounding swampland.
              The South African
              3
              Dead things waiting for the swampland and the river to swallow them up.
              Crucifixion river
              4
              That swampland down there makes ours look like a manicured showpark.
              Speaks the Nightbird
              5
              Residents in the neighbourhood have settled in what authorities deem an uninhabitable, marshy swampland.
              The South African
              6
              There is the lake and swampland of Savoie, for instance.
              Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
              7
              It looked like a fair meadow and it turned out to be slippery swampland.
              The Young Lions
              8
              Palamedes racing through a marshy swampland, pursuing the staglike creature.
              The Sorceress
              9
              He looked like a banker who'd foreclosed on what turned out to be swampland.
              The burglar who painted like mondrian
              10
              This swampland... it is difficult even for a boat.
              White Hunter, Black Heart
              11
              To the south are the Basto and the Mullica, which flow through wild untrammeled swampland.
              The new yorker
              12
              He had been there in winter hunting bears when all the swampland was locked by ice.
              The Last Trail
              13
              What balanced there now, as if walking the treacherous surface of the swampland, was no animal.
              Voodoo Planet
              14
              To me: Yonder's a trail leading to swampland.
              Break No Bones
              15
              The Queen sneaked through the swampland and out into the forest toward the Seven Jeweled Hills.
              Fairest of All
              16
              Did he also have some swampland to buy?
              Embrace the darkness
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              Swampland through the time