marshier; marshiest
1
: resembling or constituting a marsh
marshy ground
2
: relating to or occurring in marshes
marshy vegetation
marshiness
noun
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The trail winds under shady trees in a more marshy habitat before coming to a water crossing over a wooden bridge.
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Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2024
Sign the family up for surf lessons with Sister Jo’s Surf School (the waves are almost always ideal for beginners) and stroll the boardwalk through a marshy forest at the small but beautiful Indian Rocks Beach Nature Preserve.
—Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2024
The marshy guitar scrapes and nocturnal hushedness is less Asobi Seksu and more Alex G (whom DIIV covered on Murmrr), and the song concludes with a smoky, after-hours inversion of their signature throb.
—Eli Enis, SPIN, 23 May 2024
But then suddenly, out of the milieu’s marshy semi-urban landscape of empty beer cans, cigarette butts, domestic abuse and despair, the film takes magical-realist flight and transforms into something unlike anything Arnold’s done before.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
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Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2024
Sign the family up for surf lessons with Sister Jo’s Surf School (the waves are almost always ideal for beginners) and stroll the boardwalk through a marshy forest at the small but beautiful Indian Rocks Beach Nature Preserve.
—Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2024
The marshy guitar scrapes and nocturnal hushedness is less Asobi Seksu and more Alex G (whom DIIV covered on Murmrr), and the song concludes with a smoky, after-hours inversion of their signature throb.
—Eli Enis, SPIN, 23 May 2024
But then suddenly, out of the milieu’s marshy semi-urban landscape of empty beer cans, cigarette butts, domestic abuse and despair, the film takes magical-realist flight and transforms into something unlike anything Arnold’s done before.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
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“Marshy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marshy. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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