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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fen n.  Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
    'Mid reedy fens wide spread.   --Wordsworth.
 Note:Fen is used adjectively with the sense of belonging to, or of the nature of, a fen or fens.
 Fen boat, a boat of light draught used in marshes.
 Fen duck Zool., a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]
 Fen fowl Zool., any water fowl that frequent fens.
 Fen goose Zool., the graylag goose of Europe. [Prov. Eng.]
 Fen land, swamp land.