swale
Significado (Inglés)
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- A low tract of moist or marshy land.
- A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
- A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
- Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
- A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
Sinónimos
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/sweɪl/
Etimología (Inglés)
In summary
Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).
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