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noun low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
originEtymology tree English swamp Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English swampland From swamp + land.
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