Definition of "salt marsh" [salt marsh]

• Low coastal grassland frequently overflowed by the tide. (noun)

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• "When the level prairie merged into low rolling hills, dotted with fescue and feather grass and red with the richness of iron ore -- the red ochre making it hallowed ground -- Brun knew the salt marsh was not far beyond."