swamp sparrow
Melospiza georgiana | North American finch of marshy area |
swamp rabbit canecutter
swamp hare
Sylvilagus aquaticus | a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands |
marsh hare
swamp rabbit Sylvilagus palustris | a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida |
swamp buggy
marsh buggy | an amphibious vehicle typically having four-wheel drive and a raised body |
| Okefenokee Swamp | a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia |
swamp
swampland b | low land that is seasonally flooded, has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog |
| swamp pine | any of several pines that prefer or endure moist situations such as loblolly pine or longleaf pine |
bald cypress
swamp cypress
pond bald cypress
southern cypress
Taxodium distichum | common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base, found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms |
Montezuma cypress
Mexican swamp cypress
Taxodium mucronatum | cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands |
sweet bay
swamp bay
swamp laurel Magnolia virginiana | shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers, abundant in southeastern United States |
bayberry candleberry
swamp candleberry
waxberry Myrica pensylvanica | deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green waxoated berries |
swamp sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius | sunflower of eastern North America having narrow leaves and found in bogs |
swamp candles
Lysimachia terrestris | North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places |
rose mallow swamp mallow
common rose mallow
swamp rose mallow
Hibiscus moscheutos | showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large roseolored flowers |
swamp laurel bog laurel
bog kalmia
Kalmia polifolia | laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath |
swamp azalea
swamp honeysuckle
white honeysuckle Rhododendron viscosum | shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle |
high-bush blueberry
tall bilberry
swamp blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum | high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom, source of most cultivated blueberries |
swamp white oak
swamp oak Quercus bicolor | large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks, yields heavy strong wood used in construction, thrives in wet soil |
southern red oak
swamp red oak
turkey oak Quercus falcata | large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks, New Jersey to Illinois and southward |
swamp chestnut oak
Quercus michauxii | medium to large deciduous tree of moist areas of southeastern United States similar to the basket oak |
| pin oak swamp oak Quercus palustris | fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn, thrives in damp soil |
swamp birch
water birch
mountain birch
Western paper birch
Western birch
Betula fontinalis | birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark |
swamp ash
Fraxinus caroliniana | small ash of swampy areas of southeastern United States |
bitternut
bitternut hickory
bitter hickory
bitter pignut
swamp hickory
Carya cordiformis | hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with or leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts |
mountain swamp gum
Eucalyptus camphora | medium-sized swamp gum of New South Wales and Victoria |
swamp gum
Eucalypt ovata | medium-sized tree of southern Australia |
water locust
swamp locust
Gleditsia aquatica | honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods, yields dark heavy wood |
swamp oak
Viminaria juncea
Viminaria denudata | Australian leafless shrub resembling broom and having small yellow flowers |
swamp dewberry
swamp blackberry
Rubus hispidus | of eastern North America |
| swamp fly honeysuckle | a variety of fly honeysuckle |
swamp willow
black willow
Salix nigra | North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes |
swamp cottonwood
black cottonwood downy poplar
swamp poplar
Populus heterophylla | North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood |
red maple
scarlet maple
swamp maple
Acer rubrum | maple of eastern and central America, five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn |
marsh plant
bog plant
swamp plant | a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land, most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc, possibly heath |
lizard's-tail
swamp lily
water dragon Saururus cernuus | North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers |
swamp horsetail
water horsetail
Equisetum fluviatile | Eurasia, northern North America to Virginia |
swamp milkweed
Asclepias incarnata | densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers |
| swamp | a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables, he was trapped in a medical swamp |
swamp fever
leptospirosis | an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals, characterized by jaundice and fever |
deluge
flood
inundate
swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity, as with a liquid, the basement was inundated after the storm, The images flooded his mind |
swamp
drench | drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged, The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor |