noun
- areas of wet, marshy ground; wetlands characterized by standing water and aquatic vegetation
Usage: plural form of swampland
Examples
- The swamplands provide crucial habitat for migratory birds.
- Developers want to drain the swamplands to build new housing.
- Many rare species of plants thrive in these protected swamplands.
- The hurricane caused flooding that turned farmland into temporary swamplands.
- Ecologists study the biodiversity found in coastal swamplands.
- The government designated the swamplands as a national wildlife refuge.