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sloughland

sloughland noun: land marked by sloughs; swampland.

Noun

sloughland (plural sloughlands)

  1. Land marked by sloughs; swampland.
    • ... an area of continuous sloughland, all more or less flooded. The land is quite useless until some system of drainage on a large scale lets the water off the surface into either Carrot river or Sipanok channel, when the soil would probably be found to be[…]1908, Canada. Topographical Survey, Report, page 264

Forms of sloughland

pluralsloughlands

Origin of sloughland

From slough + land.

Questions about sloughland

What does sloughland mean?
Sloughland means land marked by sloughs; swampland.
What part of speech is sloughland?
Sloughland is a noun.
What is the plural of sloughland?
The plural of sloughland is sloughlands.

Words near sloughland in the dictionary

  1. sloughiness
  2. sloughing
  3. sloughing off
  4. sloughings
  5. sloughis
  6. sloughland
  7. sloughlands
  8. sloughs
  9. sloughs of despond
  10. sloughs off
  11. sloughy

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