salt marsh

noun

1. a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.

salt marsh

noun

1. 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

salt marsh

1. 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.

Other Words From

• salt-marsh saltmarsh adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of salt marsh¹

before 1000; Middle English saltmerche, Old English sealtne mersc

Example Sentences

Among those salt marshes, blocked from the Atlantic by the peninsula of Revere Beach, is where Saulenas bought her house in 1975.

From MIT Technology Review

A new target under the proposed plan seeks to restore just under 700 acres of salt marsh, a choice the city is facing right now in Mission Bay at the Kendall Frost marsh.

From Voice of San Diego

The Coastal Trail runs along the Gulf Coast’s beaches, dunes, tidal flats, oyster bars, and salt marshes, fringed by pineland, scrub oak, and hardwood forests.

From Outside Online

Biorock can also be used to restore other marine habitats such as seagrass and salt marshes, Goreau notes.

From MIT Technology Review

Ghost Hawk arose like a mist from the estuary salt-marsh on the South Shore where she built her island home.

From The Daily Beast

There was a salt marsh which bounded part of the mill-pond, on the edge of which the boys used to stand to fish for minnows.

From Project Gutenberg

"Yes, but you said you'd help me," said the girl, walking steadily across the sand to the salt-marsh beyond.

From Project Gutenberg

In the marsh were tall waving feathery salt-marsh grasses, and little pools of murky water.

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Now it must look out for itself, eat, grow fat and strong, and then dig its way out into the salt-marsh.

From Project Gutenberg

Three miles of causeway across the salt marsh brought us to the church and village of our Lady of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

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