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po·co·sin

 (pə-kō′sĭn)
n. Chiefly South Atlantic US
A swamp in an upland coastal region. Also called regionally dismal.
[Possibly of Virginia Algonquian origin.]
Word History: In the Atlantic coastal plain from Virginia through northern Florida, a swamp or marsh can be called a pocosin or a dismal, the second term illustrated in the name of the Dismal Swamp on the border of North Carolina and Virginia. The word pocosin is probably a borrowing from Virginia Algonquian. The early settlers used pocosin as a designation for low swampy ground, especially a wooded swamp.
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pocosin

(pəˈkəʊsɪn)
n
(Environmental Science) US a swamp in a US upland coastal region
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po•co•sin

or po•co•son or po•co•sen

(pəˈkoʊ sən, ˈpoʊ kə sən)

n. Southeastern U.S.
a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region.
[1625–35, Amer.; probably < an Algonquian language]
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