underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
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Fenland
low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England"
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A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement excep…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments, Land and soil.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy la…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments, Land and soil.A pond for watering horses.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.See Lagoon.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydr…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments.A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments, Land and soil.low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments, Land and soil.An ant.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Rivers, lakes and water, Hydrology and rivers, Water and aquatic environments, Land and soil.A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
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An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.Abounding in fens; fenny.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: low-lying, land, grassy, vegetation, transition.
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