salt marsh
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- noun
- /sɔlt mɑrʃ/
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marisma salina
- The salt marsh provides a crucial habitat for many salt-tolerant plants and animals.
- salt marshes and mangrove
- Californian salt marsh
- salt marshes and seagrass
Examples
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Activities vary from exploring a salt marsh community and beach profiling to shark tagging and trawling aboard the A.E. Verrill.
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The beach and the salt marsh have been rising along with sea level and moving shoreward.
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It's a flat salt marsh!
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passes through a narrow gap between a salt marsh and the sea.
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Boake had told her how the land had been salt marsh for 50 years.
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Here the Coastal Rd passes through a narrow gap between a salt marsh and the sea.
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The seven-mile Black Point Wildlife Drive through restored salt marsh is also a must.
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The Boardwalk Trail leads through a tidal salt marsh.
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Off the eastern shore is Assateague Island, where the wild Chincoteague ponies roam the salt marshes.
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Major habitats of the Great Bay include open water, tidal creeks, mudflats, rocky shore, salt marsh, and uplands.
Academic text (1998)
How Muddy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area of low-lying coastal land flooded by saltwater' is directly and transparently built from 'salt' (saltwater) + 'marsh' (a wetland), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer the compound meaning. This compound follows a common noun+noun composition pattern found across languages and in English coastal vocabulary, making it accessible to B1 learners with knowledge of the constituents.
Etymology
Salt marsh gives a simple picture: low ground by the sea that is wet with salty water, where salt points to the seawater and marsh means a wet, soft field. That's why 'salt marsh' refers to a low coastal area 'flooded by saltwater' that supports plants that can live in salt.