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Sphagnum   Listen
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Sphagnum  n.  (Bot.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sphagnum" Quotes from Famous Books



... Range.—Swamps, sphagnum bogs, shores of rivers and ponds, wet, rocky hillsides; not uncommon, especially northward, on dry ...
— Handbook of the Trees of New England • Lorin Low Dame

... gun, presented by a Belgian employer, burst at a critical moment and crippled him for life. At the very moment of starting, Arnold had trouble with the railway officials. He was taking a quantity of Sphagnum moss in which to wrap the precious things, and they refused to let him carry it by passenger train. The station-master at Waterloo had never felt the atmosphere so warm, they say. In brief, this was a man ...
— About Orchids - A Chat • Frederick Boyle



Words linked to "Sphagnum" :   bog moss, peat moss



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