Everglades National Park
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- proper noun
- /ˈɛvərˌɡleɪdz ˈnæʃənl pɑrk/
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Parque Nacional de los Everglades
- Every year, 1.3 million tourists drive down Palm Drive into the Everglades National Park.
- Everglades National Park in Florida
- border of Everglades National Park
- water in Everglades National Park
Examples
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Photo (black and white): The Everglades National Park is renowned for flocks of wading birds such as these common egrets.
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In lowering groundwater levels from the farmland, the canals also draw water from the Everglades National Park's eastern marshes.
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Photo: Everglades National Park.
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Regular wild vagrants travel as far north as Florida and are often sighted in Everglades National Park.
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Humble has proposed construction of a 16-mile curtain wall sunk into the ground along the eastern border of Everglades National Park.
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The number of nesting wood storks in the Everglades National Park dropped from 6,000 in the 1930s to 500 in 1989.
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The study of the water starts with a computer-based model of the natural flow through the park devised by researchers at Everglades National Park, NBS, and the South Florida Water Management District.
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Davis and John Ogden, a National Park Service senior ecologist stationed at Everglades National Park in Homestead, have edited a new book on the Everglades.
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At Taylor Slough, a major waterway through the Everglades National Park, the organic biomass dropped from 950 grams per square meter in the 1960s to 293 in 1979.
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In 1947, the federal government established the Everglades National Park, setting aside a million and a half acres.
Synonyms
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A large area of wet land in southern Florida with many wild animals
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A large wet area in southern Florida like a swamp with many plants and animals
Surface Forms
Morphology
Everglades + national + park
This is a straightforward compositional name: 'Everglades' (a place/region) + 'national' (state-run) + 'park' (protected recreational area). A B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand it denotes a national park located in the Everglades, even if finer ecological details are not deducible from the words alone.
Etymology
Everglades National Park comes from the word Everglades, made from ever and glade, which gives a picture of wide, grassy wetlands that seem to go on forever. That's why the name fits this large park of swamps, tall grasses, and many wild animals.