adjective
definition
Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp.
example
swampy armpits
definition
Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones.
Examples of swampy in a Sentence
Some are found in more or less open plains, while others inhabit swampy districts.
These plants, which appear to have grown in swampy soil, thus attained the dimensions of considerable trees.
Extensive areas are permanently swampy.
Although very little of the coast belt is actually swampy, a kind of natural canalization connects many of the rivers at their mouths with each other, though some of these connecting creeks are as yet unmarked on maps.
This species chiefly frequents swampy grass jungle and is fond of a mud-bath.
The rhinoceros is found in the denser parts of the forests and generally in swampy places.
They cannot walk much on swampy land since their hooves...
In Borneo the red ape inhabits the swampy forest-tract at the foot of the mountains.
Resting on a submarine plateau of no great depth, the coasts of Borneo are for the most part rimmed round by low alluvial lands, of a marshy, sandy and sometimes swampy character.
Its deposits have long since filled up the harbours of Miletus, and converted the islands which protected them into mounds in a swampy plain.
On the Coastal Plain the cypress grows in the Dismal Swamp, river birch along the streams, and sweet gum and black gum in swampy woods.
The inland portion of the district is covered with forest, while the flat and swampy seaboard is largely occupied by rice-fields.
These plants grow in swampy forests, and, being dioecious and varying much in the form of leaf in different individuals, are imperfectly known to botanists, only two species having been identified with certainty.
The surface of Khorasan thus consists mainly of highlands, saline, swampy deserts and upland valleys, some fertile and wellwatered.
In the swampy lands of the upper Nile it forms, along with a species of Saccharum, huge floating grass barriers.
Glyceria fluitans, manna-grass, socalled from the sweet grain, is one of the best fodder grasses for swampy meadows; the grain is an article of food in central Europe.
It is extensively distributed in the tropical parts of South and Central America, frequenting low swampy savannas, along the banks of rivers, and the depths of the humid forests, but is nowhere abundant.
It was probably at one time an island; this was Strabo's opinion, and at the present day the ground which joins it to the mainland is low and swampy, and seems to have been formed by alluvial soil brought down by the Cephisus.
The common souslik lives in dry, treeless plains, especially on sandy or clayey soil, and is never found either in forests or on swampy ground.
The agricultural inquiry of 1895 showed that 94.5% of the country consisted of arable land, gardens, vineyards, meadows, pastures and forests; but much of this area must be set down as mountainous and swampy pasture of poor quality.
The banks of the Niger below Mopti become swampy and treeless, and the first of a series of lakes (Debo) is reached.
Near the west end of that lake it receives its first important affluent, the Lutschine (left), and then runs across the swampy plain of the Bodoli, between Interlaken (left) and Unterseen (right), before again expanding in order to form the Lake of Thun.
Rice is cultivated on a large scale only in the swampy lowlands of Valencia.
But the death-rate is still high, due partly to the swampy nature of the outskirts of the city proper, and still more to the mortality among Hindu immigrants from the Madras presidency.
A swampy plain, traversed by the Ruchuru and other rivers, extends south of the Nyanza and was once covered by its waters.
Desmoulin's Whorl Snail is a tiny gastropod that lives in swampy grasslands.
The area at that time was a swampy lowland with a subtropical to tropical climate, very much like areas of south Florida today.
Through mossy alder trees are rich swampy areas with sedges, marsh marigold, tall yellow flags and the rare and beautiful summer snowflake.
To the left, the ground became too swampy for troops.
Phellos, a rather large tree found on swampy land in the southern states, is the most important of this group; itstimberisof indifferent quality.
The swampy jungle is being rapidly reclaimed for rice cultivation, which is the sole crop. Area, 2137 sq.
The tundra is a coastal plain, swampy and covered with undergrowth and underlaid by gravel.
The conditions favourable to the production of coal seem therefore to have been-forest growth in swampy ground about the mouths of rivers, and rapid oscillation of level, the coal produced during subsidence being covered up by the sediment brought down by the river forming beds of sand or clay, which, on re-elevation, formed the soil for fresh growths, the alternation being occasionally broken by the deposit of purely marine beds.
Though in one or two places rocky headlands jut into the sea, the coast is in general sandy, low, and much broken by rivers and deep estuaries, dotted with swampy islands, giving it the appearance of a vast delta.
Most of the country consists of the swampy plains of the great delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.
Even small areas of just a few trees on swampy ground, can hold populations of rare species.
Furthermore, avoid exceptionally swampy parks or areas of long grass that will harbor elevated mosquito populations.
This will grow well almost anywhere, although, like the wild plants that colors the meadows with its softhued flowers, it delights in swampy ground.
America mostly, and usually hardy, they are sometimes well over 100 feet high; in their own country inhabiting moist woods and swampy grounds, and therefore likely to be useful in ours in soil not thought good enough for many trees.
Credence Clearwater Revival was a four-piece rock band whose swampy sound was straightforward and direct.
If you plan to take it into swampy areas, this is a plus to look for.
Consider using dark purple nail polish on your nails and tip the ends with a swampy metallic green polish for a manicure that is artful and mysterious.
Near the lake the valley was formerly swampy, and at high-water the lake overflowed into it.
The Argentine " mesopotamia," between the Parana and Uruguay rivers, belongs in great measure to this same region, being partly wooded, flat and swampy in the north (Corrientes), but higher and undulating in the south (Entre Rios).
The final engagement, in which the Goths fought with the courage of despair, took place on swampy ground in the Dobrudja near Abritum (Abrittus) or Forum Trebonii and ended in the defeat and death of Decius and his son.
Although there are patches of marsh - generally the swampy bottoms of valleys - the whole surface of Liberia inclines to be hilly or even mountainous at a short distance inland from the coast.
A genus much represented is Culcasia, and swampy localities are thickly set with the giant Cyrtosperma arum, with flower spathes that are blotched with deep purple.
Vast and impenetrable forests, impassable marches and thickets, numerous lakes, swampy meadows, with cleared and dry spaces here and there occupied by villages, are the leading features of this region.
For instance, the swampy character of malarial areas is explained by their breeding in stagnant water; the effect of drainage, and the general immunity of high-lying, dry localities, by the lack of breeding facilities; the danger of the night air, by their nocturnal habits; the comparative immunity of the upper storeys of houses, by the fact that they fly low; the confinement of malaria to well-marked areas and the diminution of danger with distance, by their habit of clinging to the breeding-grounds and not flying far.
Put comprehensively, it involves the control of the subsoil and surface waters by drainage, the regulation of rivers and floods, suitable agriculture, the clearing of forests or jungles, which tend to increase the rainfall and keep the ground swampy.