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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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

[U. S.]

See also: Everglades

everglade ‎(plural everglades)

A tract of marshland, especially one containing clumps of sawgrass and hammocks of vegetation