marsh

An area of low-lying land that is usually saturated with water and is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plants.

A tract of water-soaked or partially overflowed land; wet, miry, or swampy ground; a piece of low ground usually more or less wet by reason of overflow, or scattered pools, but often nearly or wholly dry in certain seasons; a swamp; a fen. Low land subject to overflow by the tides is called salt-marsh or tide-marsh.

In Australia, a drained meadow. See the extract.

A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

a plant (Nartheeium ossifragum) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; — called also bog asphodel.

a plant (Potentilla palustris) having purple flowers, and found growing in marshy places; marsh five-finger.

In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes (Iva frutescens).

See Marsh cinquefoil (above).

See under Gas.

a genus (Spartina) of coarse grasses growing in marshes; — called also cord grass. The tall Spartina cynosuroides is not good for hay unless cut very young. The low Spartina juncea is a common component of salt hay.