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单词 fen
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Examples of 'fen' in a sentence
fen

Fen raft spiders are, sad to say, no more venomous than the spiders in your potting shed.

In other languages
fen

British English: fen NOUN
Fen is used to refer to an area of low, flat, wet land.
This is fen country – the mills drive pumps that drain the land.
  • American English: fen
  • Brazilian Portuguese: pântano
  • Chinese: 沼泽地
  • European Spanish: terreno pantanoso
  • French: terre marécageuse
  • German: Moor
  • Italian: palude
  • Japanese: 湿原
  • Korean: 소택지
  • European Portuguese: pântano
  • Latin American Spanish: terreno pantanoso

(noun) 
Definition
low-lying flat marshy land
Peat is growing in the fen.
Synonyms
marsh
a recently reclaimed saltwater marsh
moss (Scottish)
swamp
Much of the land is desert or swamp.
bog
We walked steadily across moor and bog.
slough
quagmire
Overnight rain had turned the grass airstrip into a quagmire.
holm (dialect)
morass
a morass of gooey mud
pakihi (New Zealand)
muskeg (Canadian)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of bog
Definition
a wet spongy area of land
We walked steadily across moor and bog.
Synonyms
marsh,
moss (Scottish, NorthernEngland, dialect),
swamp,
slough,
wetlands,
fen,
mire,
quagmire,
morass,
marshland,
peat bog,
pakihi (New Zealand),
muskeg (Canadian)
in the sense of morass
Definition
a tract of swampy low-lying land
a morass of gooey mud
Synonyms
marsh,
swamp,
bog,
slough,
fen,
moss (Scottish, NorthernEngland, dialect),
quagmire,
marshland,
muskeg (Canadian)
in the sense of muskeg
Definition
an area of undrained boggy land
Synonyms
swamp,
bog,
marsh,
quagmire,
moss (Scottish, NorthernEngland, dialect),
slough,
fen,
mire,
morass,
everglade(s) (US),
pakihi (New Zealand)

Nearby words of
fen

  • femininity
  • feminism
  • femme fatale
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  • fence
  • fencing
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