A firm brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and…

transferred. The substance obtained from or forming a turbary; peat. Obsolete.

collective as a substance; peat.

The soil which makes up a moor; any of various, usually poor soils of which moorland consists; peat. Now chiefly Scottish (Shetland).

peaty soil.

earth composed of, or largely mixed with, peat.

A peatbog; peat combined with clay or sand.

A dark, loose, peaty, acidic soil formed by decomposition of plant material and found chiefly in parts of Guyana. Frequently attributive.

= bog-earth n.