[
UK
/swˈɑːmplənd/
]
NOUN
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
How To Use swampland In A Sentence
- While the mainland of Suriname was swampland, infested with malaria, the mountainous island of Curaçao has always been free of malaria.
- Nature's third largest cat - after the tiger and the lion - the jaguar can survive in a variety of terrain ranging from swamplands to drought-stricken country.
- Discover the hermit thrush in shady maple and hemlock groves, bobolinks in golden hay fields, northern water thrush in swamplands, and hawks migrating in autumn.
- At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer.
- To fulfill this anticipation, you'll cross a number of differing terrains, including deserts, snowbound mountain passes and fetid swampland, gathering a number of companions along the way.
- But a good chunk of it is swampland.
- The Risotian Expanse was home to a race of swamp farmers who resided on floating man-made islands in the swamplands at the southernmost tip of Osara.
- New Orleans East was a weird place even before the storm, a huge swath of filled in swampland stretching eastward along Lake Ponchatrain for miles, stretched out like an arm from the city-center. Year of the Dog
- Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland. Top Stories - Google News
- Park rangers, who photographed the remains of the two huge reptiles, say the clash demonstrates the threat to the fragile swamplands posed by a growing population of non-native Burmese pythons.