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Noun Concept

Categories: Peat deposits, Articles with short description, Bogs, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Wetlands

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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 WordNet 3.0

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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. Wikipedia

A peatland is a type of wetland whose soils consist of organic matter from decaying plants, forming layers of peat. Wikipedia

Wetland of mosses or lichens over waterlogged peat. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Kind of wetland. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Wetland that accumulates peat due to incomplete decomposition of plant leftovers Wikidata

Acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts Wikidata

terrain where peat has accumulated, either former (drained) wetland or wetland actively forming peat Wikidata

A stretch waterlogged, spongy ground, chiefly composed of decaying vegetable matter, especially of rushes, cotton grass, and sphagnum moss. OmegaWiki

An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp. Wiktionary

A bog in which the soil is formed from peat. Wiktionary

Bog composed of peat. Wiktionary (translation)

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