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Definition of Peat bog

Peat bog
Peat Peat, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make the fire burn better, fr. AS. b?tan to better, mend (a fire), b?t advantage. See Better, Boot advantage.] A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. Peat bog, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss. Peat moss. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat. (b) A fen producing peat. (c) (Bot.) Moss of the genus Sphagnum, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places. Peat reek, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel. [Scot.]

Meaning of Peat bog from wikipedia

- A bog or bogland is a wetland that ac****ulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materialsoften mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four...
- Peat is an ac****ulation of partially deca**** vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs...
- "Peat Bog Soldiers" (German: Die Moorsoldaten) is one of Europe's best-known protest songs. It exists in countless European languages and became a Republican...
- A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and...
- commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat). Ac****ulations of Sphagnum can store...
- Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England...
- Bog butter is an ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, particularly in Ireland and Scotland. Likely an old method of making and preserving...
- Burns Bog is an ombrotrophic peat bog located in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest raised peat bog and the largest undeveloped urban...
- bogs, wetland mires that ac****ulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are...
- character from blanket bogs which are much thinner and occur in wetter, cloudier climatic zones. Raised bogs are very threatened by peat cutting and pollution...