bog
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4.9
- noun
- /bɔg/
:
turbera
- The hikers cautiously crossed the bog, careful not to slip on the wet ground.
- peat bog
- grow in the bog
- sink into the bog
Well, I guess he's down in the flesh bog at the end of town.
- Well, I guess he's down in the flesh bog at the end of town.
- It's mined from ancient bogs that take hundreds if not thousands of years to replenish.
- It's very soft, the touch, and it's called June Bog.
- There was a cult once in the habit of drowning victims in bogs.
- But it wasn't like mountain like orienteering or, you know, you're not trudging through bogs, through the forest.
- I have a bog of carnivorous plants outside which are thriving off of all of these beautiful flies that they're catching.
- It's mountains, it's lakes, it's countryside, there's peat bogs.
- So I mean, where do you find it's mountains, it's lakes, it's countryside, it's peat bogs.
- Eight years of raids and counter raids, sucking bogs and windswept hills, Barbarians who melted into mists and emerged howling from the trees.
Examples
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As a boy, Patrick had never explored the bog, nor had anyone he knew.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the pool-and-hummock type of bog, tussocks are separated by standing water.
Academic text (2002) -
If you wanted to go down to the bog, feel free to peek around there late at night, friend.
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We opened the gate to the cranberry bog and sat down on the grass.
Fiction book (1998) -
As he walks down to the bog to fetch water, we look around suspiciously.
Fiction book (1996) -
Take this inhospitable bog, where pitcher plants reign supreme.
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They often live in bogs which also are extremely nutrient poor.
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It's mined from ancient bogs that take hundreds if not thousands of years to replenish.
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I have a bog of carnivorous plants outside which are thriving off of all of these beautiful flies that they're catching.
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The alders were in full leaf, and the cranberry bog was a deep russet.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
68
3.5
An area of land that is always or sometimes wet and has water plants and animals
1
6.3
A wet, spongy area of land made of dead plants used as fuel
1
5.8
An area of wet land with a thick layer of old plant material that holds water
Wet, spongy land with moss and peat where plants and animals live
A soft, wet area of ground that sinks when you walk on it
Compounds
A low evergreen shrub with leathery leaves that grows in bogs and produces small blue-black berries
- US
A kind of North American orchid with many white flowers on a tall leafy stem that grows in wet ground
- US
A low-growing shrub in bogs of the northwest United States with small purple flowers and pale blue-green leaves below
- Specialized
A shrub with bitter-smelling leaves and small white or purple flowers that grows in wet places
A plant that grows in very wet, soft ground like bogs and marshes and can live in poor soil
- Specialized
A plant with long stems of many small fragrant white flowers that grows in wet bogs
- Specialized
A thin evergreen shrub with small hanging pink or white flowers that grows in wet bogs
- Canadian
A flower that grows in bogs with one fragrant bright-pink bloom and wide open petals
A small evergreen shrub with thick leaves that grows in bogs and makes edible blue or black berries
An evergreen shrub that grows in northern bogs with pink or white bell-shaped flowers
- Specialized
A plant with yellow flowers that grows in marshes in the eastern United States
A small animal like a mouse that lives in wet mountain meadows in Canada and Alaska
A small mouse-like animal that lives in wet bogs and meadows in North America
How Wet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bog comes from an old Irish or Scottish word bogach meaning 'soft ground', so a bog is literally 'soft, wet land' full of dead plants and often hard to walk on.