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Muskeg

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Muskeg"

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Word	Definition
bognoun	(UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
peatlandnoun	Land with peat soil, such as an active or former bog.
fennoun	A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
swampnoun	An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
wetlandnoun	(usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
maskegnoun	Alternative form of muskeg. [(Canada) A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce.]
mosslandnoun	Land abounding in peat bogs.
mossnoun	Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
moufflenoun	(Canada) The loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.
mussocknoun	Alternative form of mussuck. [(historical, Pakistan, India) an inflated skin-bag for water, variously said to be made from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties.]
marshnoun	An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. (Compare swamp, bog, fen, morass.)
mushnoun	A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
moosettenoun	(informal) A female moose.
meadownoun	A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
mizzynoun	(dialectal or obsolete) A bog or quagmire.
wet meadownoun	An area of saturated soil during the growing season.
mushratnoun	(US) muskrat
moornoun	An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
meadowlandnoun	A tract of land cultivated as a meadow.
malleenoun	(Australia) A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia.