grassland that is periodically flooded by salt water
salt marsh
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salt marsh
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An area of low coastal grassland frequently overflowed by the tide.
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A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides.
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Noun
(plural salt marshes)
- A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
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- Above its dissipation in the great salt-marsh of Matkh.