as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water a day spent trudging through the fens in quest of game birds

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Recent Examples of fen The goal was to help preserve and protect the delicate valley and its fens. John Meyer, Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2025 Out in the wild, the queen-of-the-prairie grows in moist black soil prairies and meadows, fens, seeps and springs. Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025 Saving a satyr The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen, and the Mitchell’s satyr is only found in these rare habitats that take thousands of years to develop. Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2024 Earth’s earliest wildfires may have been fitful and erratic, flickering among the amphibious flora of fens and bogs. Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024 They can be found on all continents and are classified into bogs, fens and swamps. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024 But after decades of habitat destruction, these handsome insects are now fragmented and locally extinct, holding out in the wettest fens, valleys, and peat bogs of the New Forest and Dorset. Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
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Noun
  • According to the brand, the wind and sun there evaporate 90 percent of the fresh water in these marshes, leaving behind salt crystals at the bottom that are harvested using a skimming tool.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025
  • California is currently considering investing $500 million to widen a North Bay highway that’s sinking into a marsh surrounded because low-income commuters from Solano County use the route to get to jobs in Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The genre emerged in the river system of the Mompos Depression, a vast wetland and in a small mountain range known as Montes de María.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some groups tackle long-term projects such as removing invasive species from an area of prairie in Texas, or a wetland in Taiwan.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Shepman's swamp chestnut oak stands at 95 feet in height with a 318-inch circumference and a canopy spread of 118 feet.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Bowhunting conditions were ideal on Friday afternoon, when 34-year-old Mitch Piepenburg headed toward a small food plot surrounded by a dense private swamp in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Fen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fen. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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