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sphagnous, a.|ˈsfægnəs|
[f. sphagn-um.]
1. Of the nature of, consisting of, sphagnum.
1828–32Webster (citing Bigelow), Sphagnous, pertaining to bog-moss, mossy. 1846Dana Zooph. iv. (1848) 64 Like the sphagnous moss of a peat-swamp, coral zoophytes continue growing at top. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 173 The annual moisture..would collect between the impervious clayey soil and its sphagnous covering. 1888Pall Mall G. 29 Aug. 12/1 A marsh lake—whose wide margins were one dense mass of trembling sphagnous moss.
2. Producing, or abounding in, sphagnum.
1845S. Judd Margaret i. v, Their habitat is sphagnous places, what you call swamps. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 39 Sundew. In sphagnous bogs. |