Thesaurus:wetland

Thesaurus

wetland

English

Noun

Sense: land saturated with water

Synonyms

• waterland
• wetland

Hyponyms

• bog
• bogland
• boglet
• carr
• everglade
• fen
• fenland
• flother (obsolete, Cumberland)
• mangrove
• marsh
• marshland
• mire
• morass
• moss (UK dialect)
• muskeg (Canada)
• pakihi (New Zealand)
• peat bog
• peatland
• pocosin
• quagmire
• quag
• slough (UK)
• sog
• swamp
• swampland
• syrt
• wash

Various

• peatland
• moor

See also

• Thesaurus:marshy

Further reading

• “345. marsh” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “swamp” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.