salt marsh
noun
a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.
Origin of salt marsh
before 1000; Middle English
saltmerche, Old English
sealtne mersc
OTHER WORDS FROM salt marsh
salt-marsh, salt·marsh, adjectiveWords nearby salt marsh
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British Dictionary definitions for salt marsh
salt marsh
noun
an area of marshy ground that is intermittently inundated with salt water or that retains pools or rivulets of salt or brackish water, together with its characteristic halophytic vegetation
Scientific definitions for salt marsh
salt marsh
A marsh in which the water is saline, especially a coastal wetland that has halophyte vegetation and is regularly flooded at high tide. Coastal salt marshes help to preserve the shoreline by accommodating storm tides.