About The Word Swamp
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What's The Definition Of Swamp?
[n] low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
[n] a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp" [v] fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [v] drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" Synonyms | Synonyms for Swamp: deluge | drench | flood | inundate | swampland Related Terms | Find terms related to Swamp: See Also | Everglades | fill | fill up | flood | flood in | make full | Okefenokee Swamp | situation | slough | state of affairs | wetland Swamp In Webster's Dictionary \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.
zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. &
Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]
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. (E.
Edwards,
Words).
{Swamp blackbird}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Redwing}
(b) .
{Swamp cabbage} (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
{Swamp deer} (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus
Duvaucelli}) of India.
{Swamp hen}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus});
-- called also {goollema}.
(b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis});
-- called also {little swamp hen}.
(c) The European purple gallinule.
{Swamp honeysuckle} (Bot.), 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}. (Med.) See {Prairie itch}, under {Prairie}.
{Swamp laurel} (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca}) having small
leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
{Swamp maple} (Bot.), red maple. See {Maple}.
{Swamp oak} (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak
which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak
({Quercus palustris}), swamp white oak ({Q. bicolor}),
swamp post oak ({Q. lyrata}).
{Swamp ore} (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
{Swamp partridge} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several Australian
game birds of the genera {Synoicus} and {Excalfatoria},
allied to the European partridges.
{Swamp robin} (Zo["o]l.), the chewink.
{Swamp sassafras} (Bot.), a small North American tree of the
genus {Magnolia} ({M. glauca}) with aromatic leaves and
fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet
bay}.
{Swamp sparrow} (Zo["o]l.), a common North American sparrow
({Melospiza Georgiana}, or {M. palustris}), closely
resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy
places.
{Swamp willow}. (Bot.) See {Pussy willow}, under {Pussy}.
\Swamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swamped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swamping}.] 1. To plunge or sink into a swamp. 2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water. 3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck. The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green. Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory. --Sir W. Hamilton. \Swamp\, v. i. 1. To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties. 2. To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked. |
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