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Peat moss   /pit mɔs/   Listen
Peat moss

noun
1.
Any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat.  Synonyms: bog moss, sphagnum, sphagnum moss.






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"Peat moss" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand, if purchased in spring, unless the bulbs have been wintered with the greatest care in damp, not wet, peat moss, or sand, they become so withered that their vitality is seriously impaired. There are several dealers who make a specialty of thus wintering lily bulbs,[A] and if you buy from one of these, ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright

... to continue my fishing in such boisterous weather, but contemplated a hasty walk over to my uncle's farm. Our way lay westward in the face of the wind. The walk over the wet peat moss was difficult and tiring, and when I reached the Ring of Brogar I was glad to avail myself of the shelter afforded by the giant Druid stones that stand and wait by ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton

... of the high road which cut the valley from east to west, were black and melancholy fields, half reclaimed from the peat moss, fields where the water stood in the furrows, or a plough driven deep and left, showed the nature of the heavy waterlogged earth, and the farmer's despair of dealing with it, till the drying winds should come. Some of it, however, ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. I. • Mrs. Humphry Ward



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