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Definition of Okefenokee swamp

1. Noun. A large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Okefenokee Swamp

Literary usage of Okefenokee swamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880 by Francis Amasa Walker, Charles Williams Seaton, Henry Gannett (1884)
"On the east cypress ponds and palmetto flats become abundant, and wire-grass ceases almost entirely as okefenokee swamp is approached. ..."

2. Hearings, Reports, Laws, Etc by United States Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors (1919)
"South of the okefenokee swamp in Florida is another swamp called Bay swamp. ... The okefenokee swamp, embracing this enormous amount of water area, ..."

3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1912)
"ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION or okefenokee swamp.—A party left Cornell University, May 25th, for the purpose of investigating the biology of the Okefenokee ..."

4. The Life of Inland Waters: An Elementary Text Book of Freshwater Biology for by James George Needham, John Thomas Lloyd (1915)
"A view of "Chase's Prairie" in the more open eastern portion of the Okefenokee Swamp, taken from an elevation of fifty feet up a pine tree on one of the ..."

5. The Life of Inland Waters: An Elementary Text Book of Freshwater Biology for by James George Needham, John Thomas Lloyd (1915)
"A view of "Chase's Prairie" in the more open eastern portion of the Okefenokee Swamp, taken from an elevation of fifty feet up a pine tree on one of the ..."

6. The Life of Inland Waters: An Elementary Text Book of Freshwater Biology for by James George Needham, John Thomas Lloyd (1915)
"A view of "Chase's Prairie" in the more open eastern portion of the Okefenokee Swamp, taken from an elevation of fifty feet up a pine tree on one of the ..."

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