noun
carr
kah
noun
1
A patch of marshy or waterlogged ground, sometimes wooded with willows or other water-tolerant trees.
"The nature reserve includes an ancient carr where alder trees grow in the wet ground."
How to Use Carr
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA boggy, low-lying area, often with trees or scrub growing in the wet ground — mostly a regional English term now used in ecology and place names.
When to use it
A fairly specialist or regional term, most often seen in nature writing or place names rather than everyday conversation.
Word Forms
carrs plural, carrs plural, Carrs plural
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Etymology
From Middle English kerr/carr, related to Old Norse kjarr ("brushwood, marsh with scrub") — a dialect word still used in parts of northern England.