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Another word for fen

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Noun

  1. A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water

      1. An area of land characterized by swamps, marshes, etc. that is preserved for wildlife
      2. Swamps or marshes
      3. Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
      1. Land of swampy consistency or having many swamps on it.
      2. (Uncountable, physics) The set of all possible string theories.
      3. (Countable, uncountable) Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
      1. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables:
      2. An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.
      3. A piece of wet, spongy land that is permanently or periodically covered with water, characterized by growths of shrubs and trees; marsh; bog
      1. A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
      2. (Medicine) A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.
      3. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.
      1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
      2. Wet, boggy ground, yielding under the foot
      3. Land with a soft muddy surface.
      1. (Canada) A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce.
      2. A peat bog formed by an accumulation of sphagnum moss, leaves, and decayed matter, often with scattered small trees, and found especially in northern North America.
      1. Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
      2. An area of low-lying, soggy ground.
      3. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
      1. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation:
      2. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.
      3. Deep slimy soil or mud.
      1. An area or region characterized by marshes or swamps
      2. Marshy land; bog or fen
      1. A topographic surname for someone living by a marsh.
      2. A tract of low, wet, soft land that is temporarily, or permanently, covered with water, characterized by aquatic, grasslike vegetation; swamp; bog; morass; fen
      1. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate.
      2. Wet, spongy ground, characterized by decaying mosses that form peat; a small marsh or swamp
      3. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
    See also:

    dry

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Another word for fen

Noun
      1. A topographic surname for someone living by a marsh.
      2. A tract of low, wet, soft land that is temporarily, or permanently, covered with water, characterized by aquatic, grasslike vegetation; swamp; bog; morass; fen
      1. Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
      2. An area of low-lying, soggy ground.
      3. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
      1. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.
      2. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
      3. Wet, spongy ground, characterized by decaying mosses that form peat; a small marsh or swamp
    See also:

    swamp

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Sentence Examples

  • The south-eastern portion of the province consists of high fen resting on diluvial sand.

  • It lies in the midst of the flat fen country.

  • The word was derived in antiquity from the town of Helos in Laconia, but is more probably connected with 'Aos, a fen, or with the root of AEiv, to capture.

  • The cultivation of potatoes on the sandgrounds in the south and the fen colonies along the Stads-Canal invite general comparison with the industries of Drente (q.v.).

  • The western division consists of low fen or clay soil and presents a monotonous expanse of rich meadow-land, carefully drained in regular lines of canals bordered by stunted willows, and dotted over with windmills, the sails of canal craft and the clumps of elm and poplar which surround each isolated farm-house.

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