everglade

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ev=er=glade

CIDE DICTIONARY

everglade, 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.  [1913 Webster]
" When used in the United States without qualification, the word Everglades is understood to refer to the Everglades of southern Florida."  [PJC]

THESAURUS

everglade

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, quicksand, salt marsh, slob land, slough, sough, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, wallow, wash