Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water:
— Thousands of acres of marshland.

synonyms: fen, fenland, marshland.

Roget 352: semiliquidity; stickiness etc. adj.; viscidity, viscosity; gummosity^†, glutinosity^†, mucosity^†; spissitude^†, crassitude^†; lentor^†; adhesiveness etc. (cohesion) 46.    inspissation^†, incrassation^†; thickening.    jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock^†, fish glue; ichthyocol^†, ichthycolla^†; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite^†, lava; glair^†, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein^†; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity) 327; wax, beeswax.    emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture etc. 339; marsh etc. 345.    ... show more

Roget 345: marsh, swamp, morass, marish^†, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall [U.S.], cienaga^†, jhil^†, vlei^†.    ... show more

Roget 339: moisture; moistness etc. adj.; humidity, humectation^†; madefaction^†, dew; serein^†; marsh etc. 345; hygrometry, hygrometer.    ... show more

Dutch: laagveen, laagveengebied, moeras, moerasgrond, moerasland, ven
Polish: bajor

United States painter (1898-1954).

synonym: Reginald Marsh.

New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982).

synonym: Ngaio Marsh.