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Peat

/piːt/

Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.

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Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.

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Word	Definition
peatlandnoun	Land with peat soil, such as an active or former bog.
ombrogenous	(of peat or a bog) Dependant on rain.
bognoun	(UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
fennoun	A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
mirenoun	An undesirable situation; a predicament.
compostnoun	The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer.
sodnoun	(uncountable) The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
turfnoun	(uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
fuelnoun	Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
timbernoun	(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
mucknoun	Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
sphagnumnoun	Any of various widely distributed mosses, of genus Sphagnum, which slowly decompose to form peat.
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).
crowdnoun	A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
mobnoun	A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
aepnoun	—
bogs	a given name and surname.
humified	converted to humus
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.)
peat-moss	—