NOUN
- 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
How To Use peat bog In A Sentence
- Reilly will compare the population status and dynamics of the European common frog in the three different types of peat bogs found in Ireland.
- The one piece upper has kept my feet dry even when walking through peat bogs.
- The carnivorous Venus fly traps (Dionaea muscipula) are native to some of the pocosins and peat bogs of Ecoregion 63 in the Carolinas. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
- And it has done it without being a blot on the landscape as it crosses a river and three peat bogs and cuts through a landfill site before squeezing its way past the town centre alongside a road, railway and canal.
- He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
- Wire grass (botanical name carex stricto) grows wild and tall in the peat bogs of the Upper Midwest.
- Most of Lewis is acid peat bog, and much of Harris bare rock.
- He claimed it was found in a peat bog and was a vital missing link between modern humans and Neanderthals.
- I sipped, swallowed, glimpsed the peat bog plashing white legs of the kilted clan Macallan as the whisky kindled in my chest. 'The Last Werewolf'
- A large interior plateau contains dense forests, thousands of lakes and peat bogs, and rocky infertile soils associated with a glacially modified landscape with numerous drumlins and eskers.
