noun
definition
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.
Examples of marsh in a Sentence
Kyaukpyu contains numerous "mud volcanoes," from which marsh gas is frequently discharged, with occasional issue of flame.
Another stretch of marsh usually cuts off the northernmost part of the lake from the central sections.
Large stretches of marsh occur on each side of this river, as well as here and there among the hills where inland lakes formerly existed, as, for instance, near Bandung.
Mrs. Marsh stopped chopping the lettuce and stared at her.
Following a long drive that consisted of little more than two ruts worn by vehicle tires, they came to the Marsh ranch.
Mrs. Marsh smiled at Adrienne.
The name Volsci itself is significant not merely in its suffix; the older form Volusci clearly contains the word meaning "marsh" identical with Gr.
In Colorado and New Mexico Marsh has detected bones of Meleagris, Puffinus, Sula and Uria, all existing genera; but the first is especially suggestive, since it is one of the most characteristic forms of the New World.
Mr. Marsh glared at her for a moment, and then his gaze slowly warmed.
Apparently Mrs. Marsh had no idea of Brandon's plans for his future.
Even if Brandon and Mrs. Marsh now despised her, they still needed her support.
She felt deceitful pumping Mrs. Marsh for information about Brandon's plans, but it was the perfect opportunity.
P. Marsh in Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as modified by Human Action (London, 1864).
Mr. Marsh eyed her frame skeptically.
Mrs. Marsh eyed her son distastefully and then shifted her attention to her husband.
Adrienne expected a sharp response from Mr. Marsh, but he only regarded his wife thoughtfully for a few moments.
If she had come up with Brandon when he asked, she would have been there when Mr. Marsh suffered the heart attack.
Like her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Marsh had the kind of marriage she would like to have some day – happy.
Mr. Marsh was in a coma and attached to life support machines.
Mrs. Marsh glanced doubtfully at Adrienne.
Mrs. Marsh's face was white, and her eyes red and swollen, with dark circles under them.
The Balu stream flows out of the Inle lake, and is navigable from that point to close on Lawpita, where it sinks into the ground in a marsh or succession of funnel holes.
In the more damp and marshy places the bottom is covered with marsh trefoil, carex, smooth equisetum, and rush.
East of this reclaimed marsh and reaching to within 4 m.
Deep inside she did feel responsible, but not for Mr. Marsh's death.
He glanced at Mrs. Marsh.
Graceful water or marsh plants with hastate leaves, and tuberous, running and fibrous roots.
Thyme and the small white dune-rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia) also grow in the dunes, and wall-pepper (Sedum acre), field fever-wort, reindeer moss, common asparagus, sheep's fescue grass, the pretty Solomon-seal (Polygonatum officinale), and the broadleaved or marsh orchis (Orchis latifolia).
The plain contains, however, a few districts of the Utmost fertility, particularly the tracts on the central Elbe, and the marsh lands on the west coast of Holstein and the north coast of Hanover, Oldenburg and East Frisia, which, within the last two centuries, the inhabitants have reclaimed from the sea by means of immense dikes.
The main centre is in East and West Prussia, then follow the marsh districts on the Elbe and Weser, some parts of Westphalia, Oldenburg, Lippe, Saxony and upper Silesia, lower Bavaria and klsace-Lorraine.
C. palustris, the " mugger " or " marsh crocodile " of India and Ceylon, extends westwards into Baluchistan, eastwards into the Malay islands.
The hoax was finally exposed by Professor Othniel C. Marsh of Yale; and George Hall of Binghamton, N.Y., confessed to the fraud, his object having been to discredit belief in the "giants" of Genesis vi.
It nests on the ground in some rushy pasture or marsh.
Among Mrs. Marsh's attributes was mind reading.
She smiled sweetly at Mr. Marsh.
Don't get bossy with me, Mr. Marsh.
The lady at the wheel reminded Adrienne of Mrs. Marsh.
In the eastern portion of the Coastal Plain Region are the cotton rat, rice-field rat, marsh rabbit, big-eared bat, brown pelican, swallow-tailed kite, black vulture and some rattlesnakes and cotton-mouth moccasin snakes, all of which are common farther south; and there are some turtles and terrapins, and many geese, swans, ducks, and other water-fowl.
C. Marsh, by finding the imperfect fossilized tibia of a bird in the middle cretaceous shale of Kansas, Marsh, began a series of wonderful discoveries of great im portance to ornithology.
In 1880 Marsh brought out Odontornithes, a monograph of the extinct toothed birds of North America.
Marsh states that he had fully satisfied himself that Archaeopteryx belonged to the Odontornithes, which he thought it advisable for the present to regard as a subclass, separated into three orders - Odontolcae, Odontotormae and Saururae - all well marked, but evidently not of equal rank, the last being clearly much more widely distinguished from the first two than they are from one another.
A consequence of this empirical division was that marsh gas, ethylene and cyanogen were regarded as inorganic, and at a later date many other hydrocarbons of undoubtedly organic nature had to be included in the same division.
According to this theory a " chemical type " embraced compounds containing the same number of equivalents combined in a like manner and exhibiting similar properties; thus acetic and trichloracetic acids, aldehyde and chloral, marsh gas and chloroform are pairs of compounds referable to the same type.
It stands on an abrupt hill-spur rising above flat lowlands which form a southward continuation of Romney marsh.
This fringe of wooded swamp and sea marsh is generally 20 to 30, but in places even 50 and 60 m.
Where the marsh is open and grassy, flooded only at high tides or in rainy seasons, and the ground firm enough to bear cattle, it is used as range.
The state bureau of agriculture in 1903 estimated that of the total area 14.9 millions of acres were timber land, 5.7 millions pasture and marsh, and 5 o millions cultivated farm land.
As it approaches Bagdad it spreads out in a great marsh, and finally, through the Masudi canal, which encircles western Bagdad, enters the Tigris below the town.
The fertility of the pasture-land in Romney Marsh to the south and east of Ashford caused the cattle trade to increase in the latter half of the 18th century, and led to the establishment of a stock market in 1784.
The largest of these is the marsh deer (C. paludosus), which in size resembles its European congeners.