swamp : Idioms & Phrases

• noun cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands
  Taxodium mucronatum; Montezuma cypress.
  

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• noun medium-sized swamp gum of New South Wales and Victoria
  Eucalyptus camphora.
  

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• noun a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia
  

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• noun small ash of swampy areas of southeastern United States
  Fraxinus caroliniana.
  

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• noun shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle
  Rhododendron viscosum; white honeysuckle; swamp azalea.
  

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• noun shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers; abundant in southeastern United States
  sweet bay; swamp bay; Magnolia virginiana.
  

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• noun birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
  Western paper birch; Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; Western birch; water birch.
  

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• noun of eastern North America
  swamp blackberry; Rubus hispidus.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Redwing (b).

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• noun high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
  tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum; high-bush blueberry.
  

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

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• (Bot.), skunk cabbage.

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• noun deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries
  Myrica pensylvanica; waxberry; bayberry; candleberry.
  

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• noun North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places
  Lysimachia terrestris.
  

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• noun medium to large deciduous tree of moist areas of southeastern United States similar to the basket oak
  Quercus michauxii.
  

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• noun North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood
  black cottonwood; Populus heterophylla; swamp cottonwood; downy poplar.
  

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• noun common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms
  Taxodium distichum; pond bald cypress; southern cypress; bald cypress.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India.

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• noun of eastern North America
  swamp blackberry; Rubus hispidus.
  

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• noun an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever
  leptospirosis.
  

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• noun a variety of fly honeysuckle
  

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• noun medium-sized tree of southern Australia
  Eucalypt ovata.
  

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• noun a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands
  canecutter; Sylvilagus aquaticus; swamp hare.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); called also little swamp hen. (c) The European purple gallinule.

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• noun hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
  bitternut; Carya cordiformis; bitter hickory; bitter pignut; bitternut hickory.
  

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• noun shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle
  Rhododendron viscosum; white honeysuckle; swamp azalea.
  

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• (Bot.), an American shrub (Azalea, ∨ Rhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; called also swamp pink.

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• a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook.

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• noun Eurasia; northern North America to Virginia
  Equisetum fluviatile; water horsetail.
  

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• . (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.

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• noun laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
  Kalmia polifolia; bog kalmia; bog laurel.
  
• noun shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers; abundant in southeastern United States
  sweet bay; swamp bay; Magnolia virginiana.
  

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• (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous.

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• noun North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers
  lizard's-tail; water dragon; Saururus cernuus.
  

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• noun honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
  Gleditsia aquatica; water locust.
  

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• noun showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers
  common rose mallow; rose mallow; Hibiscus moscheutos; swamp mallow.
  

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• noun maple of eastern and central America; five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn
  Acer rubrum; scarlet maple; red maple.
  

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• (Bot.), red maple. See Maple.

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• noun densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers
  Asclepias incarnata.
  

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• noun Australian leafless shrub resembling broom and having small yellow flowers
  Viminaria denudata; Viminaria juncea.
  
• noun fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
  pin oak; Quercus palustris.
  
• noun large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
  Quercus bicolor; swamp oak.
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (Q. bicolor), swamp post oak (Q. lyrata).

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• (Min.), big ore; limonite.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges.

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• noun any of several pines that prefer or endure moist situations such as loblolly pine or longleaf pine
  

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

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• noun North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood
  black cottonwood; Populus heterophylla; swamp cottonwood; downy poplar.
  

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• noun a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida
  marsh hare; Sylvilagus palustris.
  
• noun a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands
  canecutter; Sylvilagus aquaticus; swamp hare.
  

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• noun large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
  turkey oak; Quercus falcata; southern red oak.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the chewink.

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• noun showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers
  common rose mallow; rose mallow; Hibiscus moscheutos; swamp mallow.
  

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• (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; called also sweet bay.

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• noun North American finch of marshy area
  Melospiza georgiana.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places.

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• noun sunflower of eastern North America having narrow leaves and found in bogs
  Helianthus angustifolius.
  

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• noun large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
  Quercus bicolor; swamp oak.
  

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• noun North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes
  Salix nigra; black willow.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.

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