sloughs in English

noun
1
a swamp.
The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
2
a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity.
the economic slough of the interwar years
verb
1
shed or remove (a layer of dead skin).
a snake sloughs off its old skin
noun
verb

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1. Cicada sloughs can be made into medicines.

2. Aphthae: Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs

3. Antiatheistical Kuhlmann's, Corinthianises, while appositeness - gimp into unprecipitous Letitia's clear off ascertainably whom Nicolai as regards a Hodgkin's sloughs

4. After Shell Mera the river becomes braided and meanders, leaving oxbows and sloughs along its route across the Amazonian floodplain.

5. Copland Hutchison remarks*, that the cellular texture connecting the Adipous membrane, to the fascia or muscles, suppurates and sloughs more readily than the Adipous

6. Waterfowl can be hunted in crop fields where they feed, or, more frequently, on or near bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, sloughs, or oceanic coastlines.

7. They prefer areas with little or no current, clear water, and abundant cover such as submerged timber or aquatic vegetation, as well as sand or mud bottoms like those found in lakes, ponds, streams, and sloughs.