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UK
/swˈɑːmplənd/
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NOUN
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
How To Use swampland In A Sentence
- At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer.
- Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
- At present it is little more than a swampland, with pools of standing water, rubble, mounds of earth and stone and other building waste.
- The shale beds above and below the coal seams range in depth from twenty to sixty feet and represent a period when the sea advanced and flooded the swamplands in which the forests grew.
- Marshmallow, which grows in the primordial bogs and swamplands, was harvested and used to fashion these crude idols, which were then devoured to cure thigh ache.
- A conservation success story is crawling through the swamplands of South Florida, northernmost home of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus.
- The downturn has its roots in the real estate frenzy that turned lonely Nevada ranches into suburban ranch homes and swampland in Florida into condominiums.
- The road from the guard gate to the recruit depot, the publicly accessible part of the base, is built up from the swampland that borders on both sides.
- In the mid-1970s, he claimed to have received a calling from God to transform two acres of swampland on his property into a sculpture park, which he named Paradise Garden.
- When they were small enough, swamplands were drained and then used to pasture animals or planted with crops.