0 ground near a lake, a river, or the sea that often floods and is always wet: --
1 an area of low, wet land, usually covered with tall grasses: --
The marshes in my area could be at risk.
The most obvious aspect of coastal losses on many estuaries is erosion of salt marshes.
The proposed areas consist of a series of estuaries with extensive mudflats and associated salt marshes.
We have other details which have come straight from those still in the marshes.
They drained marshes, irrigated desert land, and developed the country, large parts of which had been allowed to go to waste.
Here we are on an island between marshes and the river and on a site which has been a palace for 1,000 years.
I saw a kingfisher, in all its beauty, moving about over the rivers and marshes and lakes by my home.
Coursing used to take place in the fields and on the marshes.
