单词 | peatbog |
释义 | > as lemmaspeatbog peatbog n. a bog composed of peat. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > peat-bog turf-graft1313 turbary1363 peat mire1431 peat moss1505 peatbog1550 flow-mossc1565 cess1636 peat marsh1723 yarpha1805 peat moor1821 flow bog1831 raised bog1891 mire1946 raised mire1968 1550–1 in R. Renwick Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1894) I. 26 Ly peit bog. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 215 [Andromeda polifolia] Marsh Andromeda, or Marsh Rosemary. Anglis. In peat-bogs in the Lowlands not unfrequent. 1863 R. Fortune Visite Japan & China iii. 61 The soil in the valleys..resembles what we meet within a peat-bog in England. 1992 Earth Matters Autumn 7/3 The world's peatbogs contain between three and three and a half times as much carbon as all the world's tropical rainforests. < as lemmas |
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