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How to pronounce wetland in English?

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Type Words
Type of soil, land, ground
Has types marsh, marshland, peat bog, swamp, bog, swampland, fen, fenland

Examples of wetland

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Its built-in wetland dock proposes to clean the canal naturally with phragmites.
From the cnn.com
Wetland features and landscape context predict the risk of wetland habitat loss.
From the sciencedaily.com
Moreover, between 1993 and 2007, scientists observed a 6% fall in wetland areas.
From the sciencedaily.com
Savannah, scrubland and wetland constitute the remainder of Belize's land cover.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Yolo Ranch is expected to yield 1,205 acres of tidal wetland habitat, Buck said.
From the sacbee.com
The ecological significance of an internationally important wetland was ignored.
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As I gazed out on the wetland meadow, a warthog and its offspring trotted past.
From the guardian.co.uk
The wood ducks that nest in my wetland every spring find these seeds quite tasty.
From the newsobserver.com
The fen, a peat bog and wetland, is at Echo Lake Park on the road to Mount Evans.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • A low area where the land is saturated with water
  • A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. ...
  • (Wetlands (video game)) Wetlands is a 1995 computer game developed by created by Hypnotix, Inc. and published by New World Computing for DOS.
  • (The Wetlands) The Wetlands Preserve was a live music venue in Tribeca, New York City, that closed in 2001. The club was located on Hudson and Laight Streets, near the Holland Tunnel. Founded by Larry Bloch on February 14, 1989, the club was a center for environmental activists.
  • (Wetlands) areas of marsh, fen, peat land or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static, flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water, the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six meters. ...
  • (Wetlands) Watery areas such as swamps, marshes and floodplains.
  • (wetlands) Areas with standing water or a high water table that under normal circumstances support vegetation typically adapted to saturated soil conditions; generally includes swamps, marshes, bogs and areas with vegetation that grows in or around water.
  • (wetlands) Any number of tidal and nontidal areas characterized by saturated or nearly saturated soils most of the year that form an interface between terrestrial (land-based) and aquatic environments; include freshwater marshes around ponds and channels (rivers and streams), brackish and salt ...
  • (Wetlands) Lands where water saturation is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the surrounding environment. Other common names for wetlands are bogs, ponds, estuaries, and marshes.