Grodenflächen
English translation: polders / salt marshes
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| 3 | polders |
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| 3 | salt-marshes |
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| 2 +1 | foreshore / land to the seaward side of a dyke |
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| Grodenflächen salt-marshes Explanation: Little more than a guess, but it's all I can think of... Possibly it's not specific enough for land outside a dyke, though. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 26 mins (2005-02-08 11:54:31 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In fact, the Chambers 21st. Century describes a salt marsh as \"an area of land which is usually, or is liable to be, flooded with salt water. See also salting\". The latter is \"an area of land flooded by the tides\". Therefore, it is outside the dyke... |
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peer agreement (net): +1| Grodenflächen foreshore / land to the seaward side of a dyke Explanation: Deichvorland n (dike) foreshore Langenscheidt Deichvorland nt land to the seaward side of a dyke Collins Groden, der; -s, - (nordd. für [mit Gras bewachsenes] angeschwemmtes Deichvorland) Duden foreshore: a strip of land margining a body of water 2 : the part of a seashore between high-water and low-water marks M.-W. |
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| The asker has declined this answer Comment: Many thanks - helpful but forehore doesn't really fill the bill here and I was hoping for a one- or two word equivalent | ||
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