wetland

From wet +‎ land. Cognate with West Frisian wetlân.

wetland (plural wetlands)

1. (usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
   • 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013, page 59:

     European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

• waterland

• bog, fen, marsh, mire, swamp: see more at swamp
• intertidal wetland
• (descriptors of types of wetland) riverine, estuarine, marine, lacustrine, palustrine
• See also Thesaurus:wetland