Marsh vs Creek - What's the difference?
marsh | creek |
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
(Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
Any turn or winding.
As nouns the difference between marsh and creek
is that marsh is an area of low, wet land, often with tall grass while creek is a small inlet or bay, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.As proper nouns the difference between marsh and creek
is that marsh is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone living by a {{term|marsh}} while Creek is the Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.As an adjective Creek is
of or pertaining to the Creek tribe.marsh
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(es)Coordinate terms
* bog * moor * swampDerived terms
* marsh deerSee also
* marshmallow * slackReferences
* Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese (in collaborazione con Oxford University Press) . Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003. . Online versionhere