Swamp vs Heath - What's the difference?
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A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
To drench or fill with water.
To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
* 2006 ,
(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
* J. R. Green
* W. Hamilton
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
* ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
*:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:
# Many of the species in the genus Erica
# Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
# Both species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
(label) Certain butterflies and moths
# The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
# , the heath fritillary
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As a noun swamp
is a piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.As a verb swamp
is to drench or fill with water.As a proper noun heath is
.swamp
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia swamp) (en noun)Derived terms
* swamp gum * swampland * swamp wallaby * swampySee also
* bog * marsh * moorVerb
(en verb)- The boat was swamped in the storm.
- I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
New York Times,
- Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent ... ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
- The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
- Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory
heath
English
(wikipedia heath)Noun
- There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.