marsh : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a variety of aster
  

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• noun tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil in central North America that can cause contact dermatitis; produces much pollen that is a major cause of hay fever
  false ragweed; Iva xanthifolia.
  

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• noun American wren that inhabits tall reed beds
  Cistothorus palustris.
  

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• noun erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe
  common bog rosemary; Andromeda polifolia.
  

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

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• noun bellflower common in marshes of eastern North America having lanceolate linear leaves and small whitish flowers
  Campanula aparinoides.
  

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• noun an amphibious vehicle typically having four-wheel drive and a raised body
  swamp buggy.
  

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

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• noun climber of southern United States having bluish-purple flowers
  blue jessamine; blue jasmine; curly clematis; Clematis crispa.
  

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• noun annual or biennial cress growing in damp places sometimes used in salads or as a potherb; troublesome weed in some localities
  Rorippa islandica; yellow watercress.
  

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• noun any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America
  iva.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) The guelder-rose or cranberry tree (Viburnum Opulus) . (b) In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes (Iva frutescens).

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• noun perennial of damp places in mountains of Eurasia and North America having dull-colored blue or violet flowers
  Swertia perennia.
  

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• noun fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regions
  Thelypteris palustris; Dryopteris thelypteris.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Marsh cinquefoil (above).

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• noun methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water
  

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• . (Chem.) See under Gas.

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• noun perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths
  Gentiana pneumonanthe; calathian violet.
  

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

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• noun a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida
  Sylvilagus palustris; swamp rabbit.
  

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• noun Old World harrier frequenting marshy regions
  Circus Aeruginosus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a European hawk or harrier (Circus æruginosus); called also marsh hawk, moor hawk, moor buzzard, puttock.

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• noun common harrier of North America and Europe; nests in marshes and open land
  northern harrier; hen harrier; Circus cyaneus.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A hawk or harrier (Circus cyaneus), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above, with a white rump. Called also hen harrier, and mouse hawk. (b) The marsh harrier.

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• noun a coot found in North America
  water hen; Fulica americana; mud hen; American coot.
  
• noun any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
  water hen; swamphen; gallinule.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a rail; esp., Rallus elegans of fresh-water marshes, and R. longirostris of salt-water marshes.

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• noun scouring-rush horsetail widely distributed in wet or boggy areas of northern hemisphere
  Equisetum palustre.
  

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• noun European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers
  white mallow; Althea officinalis.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Althæa ( A. officinalis) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent.

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• noun swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups
  May blob; kingcup; water dragon; meadow bright; cowslip; Caltha palustris.
  

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• . (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary.

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• noun North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple
  Eupatorium purpureum; trumpet weed; Joe-Pye weed; purple boneset.
  

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• noun any of several orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza having fingerlike tuberous roots; Europe and Mediterranean region
  

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• noun scrambling perennial of damp or marshy areas of Eurasia and North America with purplish flowers
  Lathyrus palustris.
  

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• (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; called also water pennywort.

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• noun any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury
  Sabbatia stellaris; rose pink; bitter floom; Sabbatia Angularis; American centaury.
  

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• noun a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
  swamp plant; bog plant.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the meadow lark.

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers
  sea lavender; statice.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Statice (S. Limonium), common in salt marshes. Its root is powerfully astringent, and is sometimes used in medicine. Called also sea lavender.

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• (Bot.), a plant (Salicornia herbacea) found along seacoasts. See Glasswort.

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• noun perennial marsh herb with pink to mauve flowers; southeastern United States
  Hypericum virginianum.
  

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• (Bot.), an American herb (Elodes Virginica) with small opposite leaves and flesh-colored flowers.

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• noun bog shrub of northern and central Europe and eastern Siberia to Korea and Japan
  Ledum palustre; wild rosemary.
  

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• . (Bot.). Same as Labrador tea.

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• noun perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface
  Menyanthes trifoliata; buckbean; bogbean; water shamrock; bog myrtle.
  

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• . (Bot.) Same as Buckbean.

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• noun a wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of small American wrens of the genus Cistothorus, and allied genera. They chiefly inhabit salt marshes.

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• noun New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)
  Marsh.
  

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• noun United States painter (1898-1954)
  Marsh.
  

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• noun low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater
  

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• grass land subject to the overflow of salt water.

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• noun subshrub of southeastern United States to New York
  Kosteletzya virginica.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acreæ which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also wooly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and Woolly bear, under Woolly.

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• (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes.

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• (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under Rail.

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• (Zoöl.), the diamond-back.

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• noun small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows
  Cistothorus platensis; sedge wren.
  

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