| 释义 |
Definition of pocosin in English: pocosinnoun pəˈkəʊsɪn (in the southern US) an area of low, swampy ground, typically wooded. Example sentencesExamples - When you think of unusual Southeastern habitats, you might list the sandhills, Carolina bays, and pocosins of the coastal plain.
- The Fall Line Sand Hills is home to several related but distinctive plant communities: longleaf pine-scrub oak forests, Atlantic white cedar swamps, and pocosin community types.
- It goes on like this most of the way to the ocean, 40 miles away, with bays and pocosins wherever there's a dip.
- Businesses were lured to eastern North Carolina by the notion of mining the rich peat soil submerged beneath vast pocosins or evergreen shrub bogs.
- In pocosins drained by small canals and natural sloughs, mud turtles crawled up to the warmth on half-submerged logs.
Synonyms swamp, marshland, bog, peat bog, swampland, morass, mire, quagmire, quag, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, sump
Origin Mid 17th century: probably from Algonquian poquosin. |