swampland
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]swampland (countable and uncountable, plural swamplands)
- (countable, uncountable) Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
- 2007 March 12, Alessandra Stanley, “For This Family of Pros, the Con Is Everything”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Trading in their battered RV and Louisiana swamplands for a sumptuous pink mansionette with swimming pool, the Malloys pull off their ruse with skill and also childish naïveté.
- 2015, Ramesh Gampat, Guyana: from Slavery to the Present, volume 2:
- The swampland is an extensive pegasse swamp, which is rich in organic matter and intensely acidic.
- (physics, countable) The set of effective low-energy physical theories that are not compatible with quantum gravity.
Translations
[edit]Low-lying land that is regularly flooded
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