单词 | moss flow |
释义 | > as lemmasmoss flow moss flow n. now rare a watery part of a bog or morass; (also) the movement of the soil in a peatbog in wet conditions; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 202 The hundreds forced from their ain habitations to the deserts, mountains, muirs, mosses, moss-flows, and peat-hags. 1918 Jrnl. Ecol. 6 4 The occurrence of a ‘moss-flow’ or ‘moor-break’ (Moorbruch), that is the slipping or movement of a considerable area of water-logged peat, could initiate an extensive system of peat haggs. 1929 Herding Hill Hersel 15 A Blackface ewe on a ‘moss flow’ on a misty day in company with the mosscrops and the golden plovers. < as lemmas |
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