Everglades

See also: everglades

English

Proper noun

the Everglades

1. An area of subtropical marshland in southern Florida.
2. Everglades National Park, a national park in south of the Everglades.
   • 2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Beginning this year, federal park officials will restrict airboat use to those who, in 1989, used them regularly in the eastern part of Everglades National Park near Miami. That was the year Congress passed a far-reaching law to protect and expand the park by nearly 109,000 acres, and to help it recover from engineering projects that had left the Everglades starved for water.

Synonyms

• the Glades

Derived terms

• Everglades palm
• Port Everglades