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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marshland
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a woodland/wetland/grassland/marshland habitat (=a place in a wood, etc where animals and plants live or grow)
▪ The owl inhabits woodland habitats from Scotland to southern Spain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I had a vision that led me straight through the marshland like a fledged arrow to its mark.
▪ Farms on the Fens today have all the crops grown in East Anglia, but the Fens was once a vast marshland.
▪ He bought the light and many acres of marshland and salting surrounding it.
▪ In the countryside, large working farms interrupted a landscape of mountains, meadow, marshland, and abandoned quarries.
▪ It declined by slow attrition, rather than On the grand scale of its swarming marshland relatives.
▪ Most of the surrounding marshland had fallen to the crippling infection.
▪ The North Star was rolling past the wooded marshland on the northern part of the island to the Jurong Road.
▪ These conditions are best met in low-lying areas that were once marshland, and which still lie above a plentiful water table.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marshland

Old English mersclond; see marsh + land (n.).

Wiktionary
marshland

n. marshy land; bog or fen

WordNet
marshland

n. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England" [syn: marsh, fen, fenland]

Wikipedia
Marshland (film)

Marshland (, "The Tiny Island") is a 2014 Spanish thriller film directed by Alberto Rodríguez. It premiered in Spain on September 26, 2014. It won ten Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Javier Gutiérrez).

Usage examples of "marshland".

We need you to run a scan of the surrounding marshland to see if there is anything my agent might have missed.

He was walking through the marshland on foot to confront a woman he hardly knew to find out why she ran away from his bed.

Physical sight showed me marshland and blue water, and the beehive huts on the Christian isle.

I did not think our child would be satisfied with building walls to military specifications, or draining marshland, either.

Between the slope and the gleaming curve of the river the marshland shimmered in heat-haze, distorting the shapes of the men who laboured at the ditches and the tall column of the siege tower the Emperor had ordered brought in so that he could observe their progress.

But the marshland swallows strangers foolish enough to venture in without a guide.

He waved back across the rolling marshland and started to slog towards him, avoiding the open water and overly lush regions of vegetation that indicated sink pits which could very well be bottomless.

Al Qurnah and extending east of the Tigris beyond the Iranian border is marshland, known as Hawr al Hammar, the result of centuries of flooding and inadequate drainage.

Much of it is permanent marsh, but some parts dry out in early winter, and other parts become marshland only in years of great flood.

Tigris and the Euphrates break into a number of channels in the marshland area, and the flow of the rivers is substantially reduced by the time they come together at Al Qurnah.

Creek weaved its way through marshland thick with grass, brush, and trees.

Sand Creek as it meandered through the marshland, sometimes allowing the canoes to drift with the current.

The splash of movement as the insurgents wade through marshland towards him.

As Keela knew the trail, so surely from the rank, tropical vegetation of the great Southern marshland she knew the art of wresting food.

It had clouded his brain, fired his blood to ugly resolve, blinded every finer instinct with its turbulent call, until the siren who beckons men onward through the marshland of passion had flung the gift at his feet in the haunted wilds.