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swamp

95 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) swamp (noun)
  2. 2) swamp (verb)
  3. swamp angel (noun)
  4. swamp apple (noun)
  5. swamp ash (noun)
  6. swamp azalea (noun)
  7. swamp bay (noun)
  8. swamp beggar-ticks (noun plural but singular or plural in constructrion)
  9. swamp birch (noun)
  10. swamp blackberry (noun)
  11. swamp blackbird (noun)
  12. swamp black gum (noun)
  13. swamp blueberry (noun)
  14. swamp box (noun)
  15. swamp broom (noun)
  16. swamp buggy (noun)
  17. swamp bulrush (noun)
  18. swamp buttercup (noun)
  19. swamp cabbage (noun)
  20. swamp candle (noun)
  21. swamp cat (noun)
  22. swamp cedar (noun)
  23. swamp chestnut oak (noun)
  24. swamp cottonwood (noun)
  25. swamp cypress (noun)
  26. swamp deer (noun)
  27. swamp dock (noun)
  28. swamp dogwood (noun)
  29. swamp elm (noun)
  30. swamp evergreen (noun)

1swamp

noun \ˈswämp, ˈswȯmp\

Definition of SWAMP

1
: a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water; especially : one dominated by woody vegetation
2
: a tract of swamp
3
: a difficult or troublesome situation or subject
— swamp adjective
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Examples of SWAMP

  1. Alligators live in the lowland swamps.
  2. <be careful in the swamp, because alligators sometimes lurk there>

Origin of SWAMP

perhaps alteration of Middle English sompe, from Middle Dutch somp morass; akin to Middle High German sumpf marsh, Greek somphos spongy
First Known Use: 1624

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Other Ecology Terms

Malthusian, anthropogenic, biomass, carbon footprint, crepuscular, niche, sere, symbiosis, taiga, tundra

Rhymes with SWAMP

champ, chomp, clomp, comp, pomp, romp, stamp, stomp, tramp, tromp, whomp

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