单词 | muck-swamp |
释义 | > as lemmasmuck-swamp muck-swamp n. a bed of boggy muck soil; material from such a bed. ΚΠ 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Sept. 269/1 Beds of peat, or as they are sometimes called, muck-swamps, are occasionally found, being beds of former lakes that consist of masses of decayed vegetable matter. 1870 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1869 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 270 The soil was..black mud or muck swamp, five feet deep, containing a mixture of sand. 1927 Ecology 8 135 Amblystegium swamp, [pH] 5.3–6.7..; muck swamp, 4.1–6.3. 1956 Jrnl. Ecol. 44 368 Swampy areas in the mountain meadow are often muck swamps with deep wet black soil. < as lemmas |
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