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What is the noun for swales?

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swale
  1. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  2. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  3. A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  4. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
  5. A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. swamp, marsh, bog, fen, morass, slough, marshland, wetland, mire, quagmire, moor, swampland, muskeg, wash, quag, slew, moss, bayou, fenland, everglade, glade, quicksand, holm, sump, mud, salina, saltings, bottoms, polder, pakihi, everglades, peat bog, bottomland, carr, corcass, pocosin, marish, lowland, salt marsh, wetlands, bogland, marshes, fens, swampy outlet, valley, hollow, gorge, ravine, canyon, gap … more
swale
  1. (Britain, dialect) A gutter in a candle.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. swamp, marsh, bog, fen, morass, slough, marshland, wetland, mire, quagmire, moor, swampland, muskeg, wash, quag, slew, moss, bayou, fenland, everglade, glade, quicksand, holm, sump, mud, salina, saltings, bottoms, polder, pakihi, everglades, peat bog, bottomland, carr, corcass, pocosin, marish, lowland, salt marsh, wetlands, bogland, marshes, fens, swampy outlet, valley, hollow, gorge, ravine, canyon, gap … more
swaling
  1. Melted wax that runs down the edge of a candle.
swales
  1. plural of swale
  2. Synonyms:
      3. swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, morasses, sloughs, marshland, wetlands, mires, quagmires, moors, swampland, muskegs, washes, quags, slews, moss, bayous, fenland, everglades, glades, quicksand, holms, sumps, mud, salinas, polders, pakihis, peat bogs, bottomland, salt marshes, lowlands, pocosins, marishes, corcasses, carrs, bogland, valleys, hollows, gorges, ravines, canyons, gaps, passes, holes, dales, gullies, vales, basins, dells … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The undisturbed forest was criss-crossed by natural swales that drained runoff to a wetland in the valley north of the site.”
      “The streets are sited so that storm water runs sequentially through grass swales, then through prairie, and then to the wetlands.”
      “Tall desert oaks grow in the swales between the dunes, and stately desert kurrajongs dot the rolling hills between the ranges.”
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