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单词 salt marsh
释义

salt marsh

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noun

a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.

Origin of salt marsh

before 1000; Middle English saltmerche,Old English sealtne mersc

OTHER WORDS FROM salt marsh

salt-marsh, saltmarsh, adjective

Words nearby salt marsh

salt lake, Salt Lake City, saltless, salt lick, salt-losing nephritis, salt marsh, salt-marsh caterpillar, salt mine, saltness, Salto, salt of the earth
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British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh

salt marsh

noun

an area of marshy ground that is intermittently inundated with salt water or that retains pools or rivulets of salt or brackish water, together with its characteristic halophytic vegetation
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for salt marsh

salt marsh

A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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