merse
UK/mɜːs/US/mɝs/
merse noun: alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
Noun
merse (plural merses)
- Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
- Owing probably to the channel lying obliquely to those mud flats, the flood rushes up the river with a bore, the front wave of which may be several feet high. As a result, the loose mud is churned up by every tide and the water that inundates the merse always contains much mud in suspension....1926, The Journal of Ecology, volumes 14-15, page 312
Forms of merse
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Origin of merse
Middle English merse, variant form of mersh, whence also marsh (see that entry for more).
Questions about merse
- What does merse mean?
- Merse means alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
- What part of speech is merse?
- Merse is a noun.
- How do you pronounce merse?
- Merse is pronounced /mɜːs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of merse?
- The plural of merse is merses.
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