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Salt marsh

noun

Low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater.

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"Salt marsh" Quotes from Famous Books

... the difficulties, not only did the sea encroach, turning a fertile land into a salt marsh, but the winter rains, unusually heavy that tragic first winter, and lacking their usual egress to the sea, spread the flood. There were many places well back of the lines where fields were flooded, and where roads, sadly needed, lost themselves ...

— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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... On one occasion I saw an old crow flying over, calling in a decided, "stern parent" style, followed by a youngster not yet expert on the wing, who answered with his droll baby "ma-a-a" in a much higher key. She was conducting him over the pasture to the salt marsh, where much crow-baby food came from in those days, and he was doing his best to keep up with her stronger flight. Sometimes another sound from the nursery came to my ears,—the caw of an adult, drawn out into a long, earnest "aw-w-w," like admonishing or instructing the now silent ...

— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller

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Words linked to "Salt marsh" : fenland, marshland, fen, marsh