(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.
Swampy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
(2) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
(3) A cross-sectional survey on the pattern of causes of death and the age- specific mortality rate were carried out in 11 villages in the lowland swampy area of South Sumatra in September 1984.
(4) The UN has rushed troops to Jonglei, an isolated and swampy state with limited mud roads that are often impassable for months during heavy rains.
(5) Lee , 63, faced the electorate for the first time without his popular father, who ruled for three decades as premier and is credited with transforming the swampy island into a regional financial hub.
(6) 1 of 4 mothers in 11 villages in a plain, lowland swampy area of south Sumatra was interviewed in September 1984 concerning practices in managing diarrhea in the past and any diarrheal attack which had occurred during the last 2 weeks in their children under age 5.
(7) On Sunday a full-scale tank battle was being fought between opposing factions in the South's army in the far western reaches of oil-rich, swampy Upper Nile.
(8) The world’s largest fast food chain also said it would not source commodities from peatlands, or swampy areas that store a lot of carbon and can end up contributing to greenhouse gas emissions when disturbed.
(9) Around 50 years ago, Singapore was little more than an impoverished swampy island with 1.6 million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources.
(10) For the control of Oncomelania quadrasi, environmental modifications, i.e., clearing of vegetation, leveling of swampy depression and draining of stagnant water by channeling and excavation were carried out at 3 areas in Leyte, Philippines from 1974 to 1977.
(11) The localities investigated were swampy environments and scant human cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis have been notified there.
(12) He said the land had been swampy with shallow water.
(13) His Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force pushed oil prices to record highs in 2004 with attacks and threats against production in the delta’s swampy creeks.
(14) I’m on the edge of swampy, fog-shrouded Fox Tor Mire, which was the inspiration for Grimpen Mire in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s book The Hound of the Baskervilles.
(15) amongst populations of the coastal-lowland-swampy-shrubland zone of the country, particularly during the dry season which stretches from October through March.
(16) This song is a moment of joy in a record where swampy depths reign.
(17) There are now just 200 asylum seekers in the detention centre on swampy, tropical Manus Island in northern PNG, which was established in 2001 as part of former prime minister John Howard’s “Pacific Solution”.
(18) It can be found in plains, low altitudes, swampy places, and paddy fields.
(19) Two jobseekers, who did not want to be identified in case they lost their benefits, later told the Guardian that they had to camp under London bridge overnight, to change into security gear in public, had no access to toilets for 24 hours, and were taken to a swampy campsite outside London after working a 14-hour shift in the pouring rain on the banks of the Thames on Sunday.
(20) Two jobseekers, who did not want to be identified in case they lost their benefits, told the Guardian that they had to camp under London bridge overnight, to change into security gear in public, had no access to toilets for 24 hours, and were taken to a swampy campsite outside London after working a 14-hour shift in the pouring rain on the banks of the Thames on Sunday.