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swales

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plural of swale

as in wetlands

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Flying Creek Nature Preserve One of Fairhope’s newest outdoor spaces, Flying Creek Nature Preserve, offers peaceful walking trails through wetlands and maritime forest.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2026
The Venus flytrap is native only to the coastal wetlands and bogs of North Carolina and South Carolina, and grows naturally in nutrient-poor, acidic, and perpetually wet areas.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 14 July 2026

Definition of wetlands

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Situated between busier coastal destinations this idyllic town and its marshes will immediately transport you back to your early carefree days playing in creeks, digging in pluff mud, catching crawfish, and tossing cast nets.

— Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 16 July 2026
The couple fell ill in a Medici villa in Poggio a Caiano, near Florence, an area dotted with marshes and rice fields — ideal habitats for mosquitoes that can carry malaria.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

Definition of marshes

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Brannan Island State Recreation Area Located near the eastern end of the maze of rivers and sloughs that make up the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

— Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado July 14, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
They're mostly found in the swamps, sloughs, wetlands, and drainage ditches of the western coastal plain, and are occasionally found around rivers and lakes.

— Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 June 2026

Definition of sloughs

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The rest of the structure was made from stones (carefully stacked, with no mortar) and turf cut into chunks from the peat bogs.

— Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 15 July 2026
The Venus flytrap is native only to the coastal wetlands and bogs of North Carolina and South Carolina, and grows naturally in nutrient-poor, acidic, and perpetually wet areas.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 14 July 2026

Definition of bogs

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Found over the eastern half of the state in swamps and sluggish waterways, coastal marshes, rivers, ponds and streams.

— Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Florida alligator safety 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, 29 June 2026

Definition of swamps

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Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Bogs and fens are areas that accumulate peat – deposits of dead and partly decomposed plant materials that form organic-rich soil.

— Jon Sweetman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2022

Definition of fens

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As the Coast Starlight approaches the Bay Area, the train glides past marshlands, open water, and distant city skylines before continuing toward California’s Central Coast.

— Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026
Living in a very unpopulated little area of the rural French marshlands, Thomas (Bastien Bouillon), his wife Nora (Hafsia Herzi) and their young daughter Ida (Tawba El Gharchi) go about their daily routine.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 22 May 2026

Definition of marshlands

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As with her earlier work, ecotourism will be a crucial component of conserving these feral swamplands and dry tropical forests at the heart of South America.

— The Editors, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026
In the 1950s, land reclamation transformed former swamplands and a typhoon shelter into today’s Victoria Park and Causeway Bay.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2026

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