salt marsh

salt marsh

See also: saltmarsh

English

Alternative forms

• saltmarsh (about twice as common as salt marsh in British English)

Noun

salt marsh (plural salt marshes)

1. A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
   • 1961 December, H. G. Ellison and P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:

     After a succession of short runs through the salt marshes and vineyards of Languedoc, linking together many towns of considerable size, the "Catalan" joins the P.L.M. main line at Tarascon, [...].

Synonyms

• salting

Derived terms

• salt-marsh caterpillar
• salt-marsh hen
• salt-marsh terrapin

Translations

marsh of saline water

Belarusian: саланча́к m (salančák) Catalan: saladar Chinese: Mandarin: 鹽沼／盐沼 (zh) (yánzhǎo), 咸沼 (xiánzhǎo) Finnish: marskimaa (fi) French: marais salants (fr) m pl Galician: marisma (gl) f, braña (gl) f German: Salzmarsch f, Salzwiese (de) f Greek: αλίπεδο (el) n (alípedo) Japanese: 塩沼 (えんしょう, enshō) Kalmyk: марц (marts) Latvian: solončaks m Macedonian: солено мочуриште n (soleno močurište) Portuguese: pântano salino m, marisma salina f Russian: солонча́к (ru) m (solončák), солоне́ц (ru) m (solonéc) Spanish: saladar m, salina (es) f, marisma salina f Telugu: ఉప్పుపర్ర (uppuparra) Turkish: tuz bataklığı, tuzla (tr) Ukrainian: солонча́к m (solončák)

Further reading

• salt marsh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “salt marsh”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.