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Peat Bog
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peat bog

 
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–noun
a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
Origin:
1765–75
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bog   (bôg, bŏg)   
n.  

    1. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

    2. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

  2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

v.   bogged, bog·ging, bogs

v.   tr.
To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don't bog me down in this mass of detail.
v.   intr.
To be hindered and slowed.

[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]
bog'gi·ness n., bog'gy adj.
peat bog  
n.  See bog.
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