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Definition of Marshy
1. Adjective. (of soil) soft and watery. "Swampy bayous"
Similar to: Wet
Derivative terms: Bog, Marsh, Mire, Mud, Muddiness, Quag, Slop, Sloppiness, Slough, Sogginess, Swamp
Definition of Marshy
1. a. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
Definition of Marshy
1. Adjective. Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy. ¹
2. Adjective. Growing in marshy ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marshy
1. resembling a marsh [adj MARSHIER, MARSHIEST] - See also: marsh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marshy
Literary usage of Marshy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"It is then the product of a grassy meadow-vegetation, grown upon the former marshy
deposit after the total draining up of the marsh. ..."
2. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"It may not be improper to bear in mind that the banks of watercourses, of marshy
grounds, of ponds and lakes, as well as humid alluvial surfaces, become, ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"The bittern makes a rude nest of sticks, reeds, &c. in ite marshy haunts, and
lays four or five greenish- brown eggs. It has a peculiar bellowing or Dooming ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Flag, Heb. akhu (AV, Gen., xli, 2,18: "meadow"; DV "marshy places", "green places
in a marshy pasture"; Job, viii, 11: DV "sedge-bush"), a plant growing in ..."
5. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1830)
"A View over an open flat country, chiefly composed of meadow lands, intersected
in parts by dwarf hedges; the fore-ground presents a marshy soil, ..."
6. Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"But in consequence of the marshy nature of the ground, the guide and muleteers
... The latter are quite at home in this marshy plain ; as also in the Huleh. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... and a little above the sea a marshy district full of salt-springs, which
supplies ' dug mullets ' ; for whoever digs two or three feet, and plunges a ..."
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