Sentence Examples

  • The south-eastern portion of the province consists of high fen resting on diluvial sand.
  • 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.).
  • It will find sustenance equally on the driest of soils as on the fattest pastures; upland and fen, arable and moorland, are alike to it, provided only the ground be open enough.
  • 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.
 
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WORDS NEAR fen IN THE THESAURUS