Salt-marsh meaning

Low coastal grassland frequently overflowed by the tide.
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Grassland that is periodically flooded by salt water.
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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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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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Alternative Form of salt-marsh - saltmarsh

Salt-marsh Sentence Examples

  • Near the mouth of the latter was a lake called Caprias, mentioned by Strabo; but it is now a mere salt marsh.

  • Like other salt marsh plants sea aster has several adaptations typical of plants found in dry places.

  • They are found on heath, salt marsh and open scrub, where they can find goldfinch, linnet or meadow pipit.

  • In Roman times it was a tidal salt marsh becoming meadowland in the middle ages, gradually extending in area as the Dee silted.

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