(n) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water, Syn. fen, marshland, fenland, Example:thousands of acres of marshland; the fens of eastern England
[しんでん(P);あらた, shinden (P); arata] (n) (1) new rice field; newly developed rice field; (2) wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period); (P)#3502