What's the difference between marshy and moorish?

Marshy


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The site of the crash was in the marshy Ruhr meadows.
  • (2) The Cs transfer from soil into pasture vegetation was investigated by using a variation of experimental conditions: (I) 67 pots with 7 kg soil from 3 marshy and 1 sandy site in the lower Weser region in Northwest Germany are used in a greenhouse with 134Cs under 8 different experimental procedures for 2 harvests; (II) 3 undisturbed 50 kg lysimeters were observed for 137Cs and 60Co transfer under outdoor conditions for 4 harvests, depth profiles of the activity were determined afterwards; (III) the transfer of the atmospheric fallout 137Cs directly to the vegetation and from soil to vegetation after preventing its direct uptake by plastic covers was determined at 4 locations in the open pasture.
  • (3) The terrain is very easy, on the whole, but be aware that recent rain leaves patches of the ground quite marshy.
  • (4) But in another of the worst affected areas, the Somerset levels, water is likely to hang around for much longer, because the area is naturally marshy and some is under sea level, so there are fewer places for the excess water to go and the saturated ground cannot hold any more.
  • (5) On the marshy plain near Gewani significantly higher infection rates occur among Afar females than males.
  • (6) Twenty-three strains of V. gazogenes were isolated from salt marshes and marshy areas on the coast of North and South Carolina.
  • (7) Like countless other Egyptians, the Shamdys abandoned their family home and fled north into the Nile Delta, where they could hide within the marshy swamplands that fanned out from the great river's edge.
  • (8) I’m not being ironic: the bogs of western Britain and Ireland don’t freeze as they do in Scandinavia, so the geese can devour the roots of marshy plants on which they depend.
  • (9) Richard III reburial: Leicester welcomes king's remains – in pictures Read more The first stop is Fenn Lane, at the working farm where scatters of artillery shot and bits of broken horse harness and weaponry finally identified the marshy ground where the last Plantagenet king lost his horse, his helmet and then his life in the last hour of the battle of Bosworth, in August 1485.
  • (10) Point Pelee, a marshy spit jutting into Lake Erie, is an international mecca for birdwatchers.
  • (11) Corbyn’s – and Labour’s – opponents will seize on anything to paint him as an unreconstructed Stalinist itching to send the burghers of Kensington off to some marshy gulag.
  • (12) A tendency can be shown for a relation to body structure as short-legged species living on marshy grounds (Kobus) or soft sands (Addax) have larger anterior lobes.
  • (13) The fluke needs marshy conditions to complete its life cycle, so could not have come from the desert area around the ancient Xuanquanzhi relay station.
  • (14) The earmarked site, at the geographic centre of New York, had for years been a marshy dumping ground, home to mountains of ash, so vividly described by F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby as "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens".
  • (15) Every 22 August it is wreathed in flowers, on the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, when the last Plantagenet lost his horse in marshy ground, and then his life and his crown, which legend says rolled from his dying head under a furze bush.
  • (16) Many of the Armenian refugees moved from the port area to a camp on the city’s eastern fringes: Bourj Hammoud, established on a marshy piece of rural land.
  • (17) A protected wildlife zone, the marshy shores are home to a variety of birds, and a ban on new hotels in the area allows the lakeside villages to remain peaceful and authentic.
  • (18) The remains of a suspected case of homicide, found to be almost totally skeletal on exhumation, was dug out from a pit in a tract of marshy land in the deep south or Sri Lanka.
  • (19) While their friend Mark Gatiss has travelled with his writing to the heart of mainstream TV (Doctor Who, Sherlock), Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been happy to till their own patch of marshy ground outside its walls.
  • (20) Among the 28 cases, 27 lived in a square mile marshy area where Anopheles hermsi, a newly described American species of the Anopheles maculipennis group, was known to be breeding.

Moorish


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
  • (2) • The tangled, narrow street plans seen in many southern Spanish towns date back to Moorish times.
  • (3) It is easy to understand Alastair Campbell's verdict on the unmanly spectacle of the governor's departure on the lease-expired colony of Hong Kong, an event which matches the taking leave of Granada by Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Spain, for dramatic bathos.
  • (4) A battery of seven lectins and several conventional mucin histochemical techniques were used to identify the epithelial mucins of the gallbladder of ten species: man, rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus, mammalia), hamster (Mesocricetus auratus, mammalia), chicken (Gallus gallus, bird), sparrow (Passer domesticus, bird), moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica, reptilia), ladder snake (Elaphe scalaris, reptilia), lake frog (Rana perezi, amphibia), natterjack toad (Bufo calamita, amphibia) and gilthead sea bream (Sparus auratus, fish).
  • (5) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian They had money to spend, and Chaplin fondly recalled the impact of their £40 outlay on the top floor flat, their couch and two armchairs, Moorish screen backlit with a yellow bulb and tasteful pastel of a female nude, “a combination of a Moorish cigarette shop and a French whorehouse.
  • (6) Our first day takes us into Italy's Piedmont region over the 2,868m Monte Moro pass, named after the Moors who invaded the Saas valley in 939AD, and left a legacy of Moorish place names (and, say locals, noses).
  • (7) Nearest airport: Lisbon (30km) What to do Explore the fairytale ramparts and towers of Sintra's Pena and National palaces and its Moorish castle, or soar through the treetops on a series of ziplines at Sintra Canopy ( parquesdesintra.pt ).
  • (8) Inside, neat lines of stone pillars rise to soft Moorish arches, creating beautiful walkways.
  • (9) Add in private palaces, Moorish patios, Roman columns here and there, and a golden tower.
  • (10) Mosaic paths wind over terraces leading to beautiful rooms decorated with Moorish woodwork and featuring traditional platform beds.
  • (11) Moorish architecture is defined by slender columns, horseshoe arches, serene courtyards and geometric patterns.
  • (12) A double clone of Trypanosoma platydactyli Catouillard, 1909, derived from a single trypomastigote from the blood of the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica, was grown in vitro.
  • (13) Some say the tradition of blacking up among morris (believed to derive from Moorish) dancers is racist, a charge vehemently denied by its adherents.
  • (14) Much of their savings have been made through basic energy efficiency improvements, such as installing cavity wall insulation where possible, Thermafleece natural wool insulation and replacing the aging night storage heaters that came with the property with a carbon neutral wood pellet boiler and solar collectors, says Moorish.
  • (15) While Paul found creative inspiration in his Moorish surroundings, for Jane, cut off from her American roots, Morocco became a cultural wasteland.