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everglade definition

☆ ever·glade (ev′ər glād′)

noun

a tract of marshy land covered in places with tall grass; swampland

Etymology: ever (in sense “unending”) + glade

everglade Idioms

the Everglades

large tract of subtropical marshland in S Fla.: c. 40 mi (65 km) wide

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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