equine infectious anaemia noun

Another name for swamp fever (see under swamp)

swamp /swomp/

1. A tract of wet, spongy (in the USA often tree-clad) land
2. Low waterlogged ground

1. To cause to sink or become stuck in a swamp (also figurative)
2. To cause (eg a boat) to fill with water
3. To overwhelm, inundate

To become swamped

1. Of, or of the nature of, swamp
2. Living or growing in swamps

swampˈer noun (US)

A person who lives or works in the swamps

swampˈiness noun

swampˈy adjective

swamp boat noun

A flat-bottomed boat with a raised aeroplane engine for travelling over swamps

swamp cypress noun

A deciduous conifer, Taxodium, of swamps in the southern USA

swamp fever noun

1. Leptospirosis
2. A viral disease of horses (also called equine infectious anaemia)
3. Malaria (US)

swamp gas noun

Marsh gas

swampˈland noun

swamp oak noun

Any of the various trees of the genus Casuarina