swales

noun

plural of swale
as in wetlands

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  1. wetlands
  2. marshes
  3. sloughs
  4. bogs
  5. swamps
  6. fens
  7. marshlands
  8. swamplands
Noun
  • The Mescalero Apache traditionally lived on hills above the creeks and wetlands to avoid rising water and mosquitoes, Walsh Padilla said.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Flooding recreates the wetlands that once spread across much of California’s Sacramento Valley.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of wetlands
Noun
  • Coastal development can also prevent marshes from migrating inland as tides rise, resulting in habitat loss.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Flores owns a private island in Louisiana’s marshes called Little Pecan.
    — Rachel Nostrant, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of marshes
Noun
  • Many places that can be reached early in the fall become inaccessible later when the sloughs and channels are half-frozen.
    — Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Without the aid of cold water, officials are electrofishing and netting in the river to remove invasives, and are considering dosing some sloughs and backwaters in the first miles below the dam with fish-killing chemicals.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of sloughs
Noun
  • But instead, the land breathes with the water, its rhythm steadied by the bogs that quietly hold the balance of the whole system.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Habitats include salt marsh, cranberry bogs and maritime shrubs and forests.
    — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of bogs
Noun
  • Hilly woods or swamps with lots of folds, ditches, and creeks are best for ground hunting.
    — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Staying safe from alligators in Florida Alligators have inhabited Florida's marshes, swamps, rivers and lakes for centuries and are found in all of Florida's 67 counties.
    — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of swamps
Noun
  • The Bluff offers a gorgeous view of a section of the Tanana River and the surrounding boglands, ranging from permafrost forests to wet fens to bogs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The wind reaches the fens of eastern England before the light does, moving over the marshes in long gray sweeps.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of fens
Noun
  • The area, which sits within Vermilion Parish, is known for its coastal marshlands.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2026
  • During most of the year, merlins inhabit open country ranging from marshlands to deserts, but many breed in conifer and birch woods.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of marshlands
Noun
  • Across state and federal lands, accommodations designated for Black Americans were routinely and nakedly inferior, relegated to remote, underdeveloped parcels or mosquito-prone swamplands.
    — Kimmie Gordon, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Congo Basin, Central Africa Tropical rain forests and swamplands blanket Central Africa’s Congo Basin, which spans six countries, including the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and Gabon.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of swamplands
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