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MARSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
Example:
the fens of eastern England
Synonyms:
fen; fenland; marsh; marshland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("marsh" is a kind of...):
wetland (a low area where the land is saturated with water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marsh"):
salt marsh (low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater)
Derivation:
marshy ((of soil) soft and watery)
Sense 2
Meaning:
New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)
Synonyms:
Marsh; Ngaio Marsh
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States painter (1898-1954)
Synonyms:
Marsh; Reginald Marsh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
painter (an artist who paints)
Context examples:
I was returning along the well-remembered route, and had reached a spot within a mile or so of the marsh of the pterodactyls, when I saw an extraordinary object approaching me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Across Marsh, Tagish, and Bennett (seventy miles of lakes), they flew so fast that the man whose turn it was to run towed behind the sled at the end of a rope.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
From the man's distorted body and twisted mind, in occult ways, like mists rising from malarial marshes, came emanations of the unhealth within.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As a result, alligators' use of salty environments such as near-shore marine areas, mangrove swamps and salt marshes was, until recently, thought of as unusual behavior and of little ecological importance.
(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)
On the way he passed by a marsh, in which a number of frogs were sitting croaking.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
My dear mother, the best that ever a man had, was the second daughter of the Reverend John Tregellis, Vicar of Milton, which is a small parish upon the borders of the marshes of Langstone.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We saw the cold winter sun rise over the dreary marshes of the Thames and the long, sullen reaches of the river, which I shall ever associate with our pursuit of the Andaman Islander in the earlier days of our career.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The study's results help explain why salt marshes contain so much microbial diversity.
(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)
The next day I left Marsh End for Morton.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
For if I could see this radiance, might it not reach the eyes of Silver himself where he camped upon the shore among the marshes?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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