OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14701

morass

/məˈɹæs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
almarjal • armajal • marisma • marjal • pantano
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fiel…
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