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# marsh

«marsh» in Mova's school dictionary: **low, flat land that is wet and soft most of the time…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a marsh, marshes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A marsh is low, flat land that is wet and soft most of the time, often with tall grasses and reeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#m1)

2) A kind of wetland home to birds, frogs and insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in geography and science (wetland habitats), stories and nature walks. Phrases: «salt marsh», «marsh birds», «marsh gas». Safety: marshes can be boggy and dangerous; stay on paths.

### examples

- Herons hunt for frogs in the marsh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x1)
- The salt marsh floods at high tide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x2)
- We walked along the boardwalk across the marsh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x3)
- Reeds grow tall in the marsh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x4)
- Don't stray off the path in the marsh — it's boggy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x5)
- Marshes help protect the coast from floods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x6)
- Then some frogs began to croak in the marsh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x7)

### note

Plural: marshes. Adjective: marshy. Similar: swamp (wetland with trees), bog, fen. Not the same as «marshmallow», though the plant marsh mallow grows in marshes.

### In the corpora

- [Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill probes the mud for food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/13/)
- [But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1264/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «marsh» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.