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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

marsh / märsh/ • n. an area of low-lying land that is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times. DERIVATIVES: marsh·i·ness / ˈmärshēnis/ n. marsh·y adj. ORIGIN: Old English mer(i)sc (perhaps influenced by late Latin mariscus ‘marsh’), of West Germanic origin.

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World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

marsh Flat, wetland area, devoid of peat, saturated by moisture during one or more seasons. Typical vegetation includes grasses, sedges, reeds and rushes. Marshes are valuable wetlands and maintain water tables in adjacent ecosystems. Unlike Bogs, they have alkaline not acidic soil. See also swamp
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A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Marsh ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name for someone who lived on a patch of marshy ground, from Middle English mersche (Old English mersc). It is also used as an informal short form of Marshall, and possibly also as a masculine equivalent of Marsha, by back-formation.
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A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | | Copyright

marsh A more or less permanently wet area of mineral soil (as opposed to a peaty area), typically found around the edges of a lake or on an undrained river flood-plain. Colloquially, ‘marsh’ is often used interchangeably with ‘swamp’ and ‘bog’.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

marsh OE. mer(i)sċ = MLG. mersch, marsch, MDu. mersch(e) (whence G. marsch, Du. marsk):- WGmc. *marisk-, whence medL. mariscus, the source of (O)F. marais, † mareis, adopted in ME. as mar(r)eis, mar(r)ais (XIV), alt. later to marish (XVI).
Hence marshy (see -Y1) XIV.
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T. F. HOAD. "marsh." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

marsh A more or less permanently wet area of mineral soil, as opposed to a peaty area, e.g. around the edges of a lake, or on an undrained flood-plain of a river. Colloquially, ‘marsh’ is often used interchangeably with ‘swamp’ and ‘bog’.
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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

marsh A more or less permanently wet area of mineral soil, as opposed to a peaty area, e.g. around the edges of a lake or on a flood-plain of a river. Colloquially, ‘marsh’ is often used interchangeably with swamp and bog.
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A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Marsh, ‘(place at) the marsh’, OE mersc: Marsh Shrops. Mersse 1086 (DB). Marsh Gibbon Bucks. Merse 1086 (DB), Mersh Gibwyne 1292. Manorial affix from the Gibwen family, here in the 12th cent.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

marsh see swamp .

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

marsh •démarche, gouache, harsh, marsh, moustache (US mustache) •Saltmarsh

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