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marsh

/mɑɹʃ/ noun B2
  1. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. · Many animals live in the marsh.· Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.

Plural marshes

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A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 83 · B2
After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 133 · B2
From the marsh at the head of the pond came the clear, mournfully-sweet chorus of the frogs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 26 · C1
One June evening, when the orchards were pink blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 160 · C1

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