everglade

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• Everglade — may refer to:* Everglades, subtropical marshlands in Florida * Everglade Crayfish, species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Florida * Everglade Township, Stevens County, Minnesota, township in Stevens County, Minnesota, the United States *… …   Wikipedia

• Everglade — Ev er*glade, n. A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] Note: When used in the United States without… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• everglade — ☆ everglade [ev′ər glād΄ ] n. [ EVER (in sense “unending”) + GLADE] a tract of marshy land covered in places with tall grass; swampland the Everglades large tract of subtropical marshland in S Fla.: c. 40 mi (65 km) wide …   English World dictionary

• everglade — noun Etymology: the Everglades, Fla. Date: 1823 a swampy grassland especially in southern Florida usually containing saw grass and at least seasonally covered by slowly moving water usually used in plural …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• everglade(s) — marshland covered with grass in places and usually having water …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• everglade — noun A tract of marshland, especially one containing clumps of sawgrass and hammocks of vegetation …   Wiktionary

• everglade — Synonyms and related words: baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, fen, fenland, glade, hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, peat bog, quagmire,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• everglade — n. marshland, swamp …   English contemporary dictionary

• everglade — ev·er·glade …   English syllables

• everglade — ev•er•glade [[t]ˈɛv ərˌgleɪd[/t]] n. geg a tract of low, swampy land, esp. in S Florida, characterized by tall grass and branching waterways …   From formal English to slang