Word Meanings - SWAMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees

Additional info about word: SWAMP

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. Farming Encyc. . Swamp blackbird. See Redwing . -- Swamp cabbage , skunk cabbage. -- Swamp deer , an Asiatic deer of India. -- Swamp hen. An Australian azure-breasted bird ; -- called also goollema. An Australian water crake, or rail ; -- called also little swamp hen. The European purple gallinule. -- Swamp honeysuckle , an American shrub (Azalea, or Rhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink. -- Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook. -- Swamp itch. See Prairie itch, under Prairie. -- Swamp laurel , a shrub having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous. -- Swamp maple , red maple. See Maple. -- Swamp oak , a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak , swamp white oak , swamp post oak . -- Swamp ore , big ore; limonite. -- Swamp partridge , any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges. -- Swamp robin , the chewink. -- Swamp sassafras , a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay. -- Swamp sparrow , a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. -- Swamp willow. See Pussy willow, under Pussy. (more info) fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. svöppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWAMP)

• Marsh
• Swamp
• fen
• quagmire
• bog
• slough
• morass
• Shelve
• Dismiss
• discard
• swamp
• stifle
• shift

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SWAMP)

• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to SWAMP)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• MARSHY
  1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. 2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• MARSH MARIGOLD
  . A perennial plant of the genus Caltha , growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• SHIFT
  divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To
• INSERT
  To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• REINSERT
  To insert again.
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.