A small muddy marshland or tidal waterway which usually connects other tidal areas.
A swamp or shallow lake system with standing water.
1) A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire. 2) A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
1. a side channel of a river 2. a wet and muddy or marshy place 3. a stagnant marsh, bog, or swamp
swampy area or backwaters.
a swamp or swamplike region; a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater or the like.
a low-lying place that stays wet or swampy
a stagnant bog or mire, mucky and difficult to slog through
a swampy habitat that is usually associated with a river and distinguished mainly by the large Bald Cypress (Taxoduim distichum) trees and the knees associated with them
a winding waterway edged with mudflats and marsh, and may be saltwater or fresh, near the coast or away from it
A swamp, marsh, or muddy backwater.
A channel of slowmoving water in a marsh land.
A channel in which water moves sluggishly, or a place of deep muck, mud or mire. Sloughs are wetland habitats that serve as channels for water draining off surrounding uplands and/or wetlands.
An open water inlet from a larger body of water.
A shallow backwater inlet that is commonly exposed at low tide.
A minor sluggish waterway or estuarial creek, tributary to, or connecting, other streams or bodies of water, whose course is usually through lowlands or swamps
A channel through a marsh or mudflat.
(1) Pronounced SLU. A side or overflow channel in which water is continually present. It is stagnant or slack; also a waterway in a tidal marsh. (2) Pronounced SLUFF. Slide or slipout of a thin mantle of earth, especially in a series of small movements.
A swamp or shallow lake system in the northern and midwestern US. A slowly flowing shallow swamp or marsh in the southwest US.
A marshland or estuary where fresh water meets the sea.