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Versickerungsmulde — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • swale noun A low tract of moist or marshy land.

Senses

Versickerungsmulde is used for these senses in English:

  • swale 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.

swale — full definition

  1. noun A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  2. noun A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  3. noun A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  4. noun 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.

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