wetland

From wet +‎ land. Cognate with West Frisian wetlân.

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wetland (plural wetlands)

1. (usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.

   Synonym: waterland

   Hypernyms: habitat; place, site, location

   Hyponyms: bog, fen, mire, marsh, swamp, slough, slue, slew, floodplain, wet meadow, intertidal wetland; see also Thesaurus:wetland

   • 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013, page 59:

     European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.