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marsh noun
/mɑːʃ/
/mɑːrʃ/ n Definition
[C or U] ground near a lake, river or the sea, that often floods and is always wet
At the mouth of the river is a large area of marsh.
Rain had been falling steadily all day and the ground had become a marsh.
marshes
[plural] a large area of marsh
At low tide in the estuary, cows graze on the marshes.
(Definition of marsh noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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