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 Translation for 'swampy' from English to Icelandic
ADJ   swampy | swampier | swampiest
votlendur {adj}swampy
fenjóttur {adj}swampy
blautlendur {adj}swampy
landaf.
fenjasvæði {hv}
swampy area
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Translation for 'swampy' from English to Icelandic

swampy
votlendur {adj}

fenjóttur {adj}

blautlendur {adj}

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swampy area
fenjasvæði {hv}landaf.
Usage Examples English
  • Lichtenbroich was a swampy area, flooded often by the river Rhine.
  • The common name, "fever tree", comes from its tendency to grow in swampy areas: early European settlers in the region noted that malarial fever was contracted in areas with these trees.
  • In Mapuche language or Mapudungun Purén means "swampy place".
  • Mullering Brook passes through the park creating a swampy area.
  • The suburb of Pinjar is named after the large swampy lake of this name located north east of Wanneroo.

  • ("swampy waters" or "swampy place").
  • Archer Heights was originally inhabited by Native American tribes, but they had little use for its swampy prairies.
  • The expedition entered San Rafael Lake on December 11, taking note of its windy conditions, the San Rafael Glacier and the swampy shores in the south that make up the Isthmus of Ofqui.
  • Often the streams flow through swampy areas.
  • The soil is swampy and unstable, with complex woody structures.

  • In its earliest known written form "Ves" was spelled "Wes" and is most likely derived from the Old Norse "Veisa", or the dialect "Vese", meaning "a swampy place".
  • This lake is as much a swamp as a lake, as at least half the surface area is covered with swampy vegetation.
  • It was originally built in the 17th century, on swampy land.
  • Fishing is practised from August to April, in swampy areas and lakes.
  • Historically, while some parts of the Sharon plain were very fertile, much of it was swampy and malarial, a condition exacerbated by massive Ottoman deforestation.

  • The swampy area of Suncheon Bay expands into the downstream area at which Dong-cheon and Isa-cheon meet, supplying the swampy land.
  • Polesie or Polesia is a swampy region in the Eastern European Lowland.
  • The Twa of these countries live in swampy areas, such as the Twa fishermen of the Bangweulu Swamps, Lukanga Swamp, and Kafue Flats of Zambia; only the Twa fish in Southern Province, where the swampy terrain means that large-scale crops cannot be planted near the best fishing grounds.
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