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UK
/ˈɛvəɡlˌeɪdz/
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[ US /ˈɛvɝˌɡɫeɪdz/ ]
[ US /ˈɛvɝˌɡɫeɪdz/ ]
NOUN
- a large subtropical swamp in southern Florida that is noted for its wildlife
How To Use Everglades In A Sentence
- A spongy, Dijon-colored city of algae and microscopic creatures that floats on the surface, periphyton cleanses the Everglades of excess nutrients and pollutants.
- The Everglades National Park stretches across the southern tip of Florida.
- Nearby is Everglades National Park, which can be explored by canoe, hiking, biking or in an airboat.
- I've done a power slide in an airboat on the Florida Everglades.
- Here, its application is intended to provide the information necessary to define maximum, allowable levels of mercury in Everglades food webs.
- Wildlife biologists say the troublesome invaders — dumped in the Everglades by pet owners who no longer want them — have become a pest and pose a significant threat to endangered species like the wood stork and Key Largo woodrat. Pythons Invading Florida Everglades | Impact Lab
- Some 100,000 psyllids have been released at sites around south Florida to help the melaleuca leaf weevil, Oxyops vitiosa, combat the invasive tree, which has been taking over 14 to 15 acres of the Everglades each day.
- I could go on a rant about how sugar subsidies cause American consumers to pay triple the market price for sugar, just to get the privilege of ruining the Everglades.
- Sugar growers use huge amounts of phosphorus-based fertilizer, most of which runs off into the Everglades and promotes the growth of exotic cattails in place of the native sawgrass.
- What I really want is a Tibor Everglades fly reel for bonefishing. More On Budget Tackle