wetland
wetland noun: land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
Noun
wetland (plural wetlands)
- Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
- 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.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59
- Synonyms:
- waterland
wetland meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
wetland in Hindi
- land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas
- तालाब tālāb
wetland in Tamil
- நீர்நிலம், கசிவு நிலம், ஊறணி, கழனி, நன்செய்நிலம்
wetland in Marathi
- पाणथळ जागा, पाणथळ जमीन
wetland in Urdu
- دلدل
More languagesFewer languages
- wetland in Bengali
- জলাভূমি, আর্দ্রভূমি
- wetland in Telugu
- చిత్తడి నేల
- wetland in Malayalam
- തണ്ണീർത്തടപ്രദേശം, ഈർപ്പഭൂമി
- wetland in Kannada
- ತರಿ ಜಮೀನು, ನೀರಾವರಿ ಭೂಮಿ, ಗದ್ದೆ, ನೆರೆ ಜಾಗ
- wetland in Gujarati
- ભેજવાળી જમીન, વેટલેન્ડ
- wetland in Odia
- ଆର୍ଦ୍ରଭୂମି, ଆର୍ଦ୍ର ଭୂମି
- wetland in Nepali
- सिमसार भूमि, आर्द्रभूमि
- wetland in Malay
- tanah basah
- wetland in Indonesian
- lahan basah, tanah basah
- wetland in Persian
- تالاب tâlâb, کولاب kulâb
- Sindhi
- آبگاهه ābgā
Examples of wetland in a sentence
- At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.
- Their hike in the wetlands took them all the way across the marsh but gave them dozens of mosquito bites.
- Temefos is an organophosphorus insecticide used to control mosquito, midge, and black-fly larvae in lakes, ponds, and wetland habitats.
Synonyms of wetland
Forms of wetland
| plural | wetlands |
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Origin of wetland
From wet + land. Cognate with West Frisian wetlân.
Words formed from wetland
Phrases with wetland
Questions about wetland
- What does wetland mean?
- Wetland means land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
- What is wetland in Hindi?
- Wetland in Hindi is तालाब (tālāb). See Wetland meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wetland?
- Wetland is a noun.
- What is the plural of wetland?
- The plural of wetland is wetlands.
Words near wetland in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wetland (page history and authors); wetland (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wetland (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wetland (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wetland (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wetland (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wetland (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wetland (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wetland (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wetland (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wetland (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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