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PEAT BOG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
Synonyms:
bog; peat bog
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("peat bog" is a kind of...):
wetland (a low area where the land is saturated with water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peat bog"):
mire; morass; quag; quagmire; slack (a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot)
slough (a hollow filled with mud)
