FEN
ADJECTIVES
► MEREY full of fens or small sheets of water → 1868 Eng. dial.
► PALUDAL pert. to a marsh or fen; produced by or arising from a marsh → 1818-20 chiefly medical usage
► PALUSTRIAN relating to a marsh or fen; inhabiting marshland → 1787
NOUNS
► CARR a pond or pool; a bog or fen; wet boggy ground → c1330 Eng. dial
► CURRAGH a marsh, bog, or fen; an area of wetland → 1780 Ireland
► PALUDE a marsh, a fen → 1412 obs.
► PALUS a marsh, a fen; an abyss → 1471 obs.
► PALUSCHE a marsh, a fen; an abyss → 1471 obs.
► POND-LAND marsh, fenland → 1686
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