turfenadj.
/ˈtəːf(ə)n/ Made of or covered with turf; turfy.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > grassland
swarded1513
turfy1552
swarth1598
laundy1611
swarthy1613
turfed1628
swardy1639
scurfy1712
herbaged1727
lawny1744
turfen1778
greenswarded1797
open range1905
tall-grass1920
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > organic > peat
mossya1522
turfy1660
peaty1723
ketty1872
turfen1903
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 115 A turfen hut might screen us from the tempest.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 582 He pluck'd them from the branches, scattering them Wide o'er the turfen floor.
1849 Zoologist 7 2338 A kind of earthen or turfen wall.
1903 N. Munro in Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 87/2 Sea scents and the odours of turfen fires.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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