[
UK
/fˈɛnlənd/
]
NOUN
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low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
the fens of eastern England
thousands of acres of marshland
How To Use fenland In A Sentence
- Across Europe, the biggest declines from 1990 to 2000 had been for bogs and fenland, heathland and coastal habitats.
- Growing much closer to the ground, both in dry, bushy places and in fenland, dewberries can sometimes be found now. Times, Sunday Times
- The main activity of the shire was sheep-rearing on the wolds, cattle on the flatlands, and fishing: reclamation of fenland went on steadily.
- First and last, though, it is a book about landscape, and especially fenland.
- The fenlands of eastern England were originally marshland, but have been turned into rich farmland by efficient drainage.
- Some 40,000 people a year visit the fenland. Times, Sunday Times
- Her setting in the flat fenlands remains dramatic, and before seventeenth century drainage works, it would have been far more so.
- I found this one on my fenland tour whilst out picking-off candidates for Classic Constructs, a new book for later on in the year. Water Marks
- Fenland is probably still the place with the best chance of finding them. Times, Sunday Times
- The fenland landscape may be flat and dreary; these stories are anything but. This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor – review