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Definition: bog 1 from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

(14c) : wet spongy ground; esp : a poorly drained usu. acid area rich in accumulated plant material, frequently surrounding a body of open water, and having a characteristic flora (as of sedges, heaths, and sphagnum)

bog•gy \॑bä-gē, ॑bȯ-\ adj


bog

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
very old lake without inlet or outlet that becomes acid and is gradually overgrown with a characteristic vegetation (see swamp ). Peat moss, or sphagnum , grows around the edge of the open water of a bog ( peat is obtained from old bogs) and out on the surface. With its continued growth, the moss forms a mat on the water in which other bog plants find a foothold, and humus and soil are slowly built up on the body of the water. Because of this formation bogs are sometimes treacherous (quaking bogs shake under the weight of a man) and have occasionally resulted in fatalities when a man or animal breaks through the vegetative crust. Because of their extreme acidity, bogs form a natural preservative and have been found to be a valuable repository of animals and plants of earlier times. Typical bog plants of today include, besides sphagnum, many orchids, the pitcher plant, the sundew, and the cranberry (old bogs are utilized for cranberry cultivation). Because of the reclamation of old bog…
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Full text Article bog

From The Chambers Dictionary
spongy, usu peaty, ground; a marsh; a type of vegetation growing on peat deficient in lime; a lavatory ( sl ). vt ( bogg'ing ; bogged ) to sink (also vi ). [Ir and Scot Gaelic bogach , from bog soft] n. adj. ❑ bog asphodel n a yellow-flowered bog-plant, Narthecium ossifragum . ❑ bog'bean n a marsh…
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Full text Article bog

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
very old lake without inlet or outlet that becomes acid and is gradually overgrown with a characteristic vegetation (see swamp ). Peat moss, or sphagnum , grows around the edge of the open water of a bog ( peat is obtained from old bogs) and out on the surface. With its continued growth, the moss…
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Full text Article Bogor

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Town in western Java, Indonesia, 58 km/36 mi south of Jakarta; population (2010) 950,300. It is part of the Jabotabak area, a centre of industrial development based on textiles, electronics, and food processing. The city is also a popular summer resort and a centre for trade in the products of the…
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Full text Article bog

From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow. b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog . An area of soft, naturally…
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Full text Article bog

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Type of wetland where decomposition is slowed down and dead plant matter accumulates as peat . Bogs develop under conditions of low temperature, high acidity, low nutrient supply, stagnant water, and oxygen deficiency. Typical bog plants are sphagnum moss, rushes, and cotton grass; insectivorous…
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Full text Article Bogor

From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Residency of the prov. of West Java, Indonesia; 4484 sq. mi. (11,614 sq. km.); a residency of the former Netherlands Indies; in N of this area are mountains of cen. range of Java (see salak, gunung and gede, mount ). City, its ✽, 36 mi. (58 km.) S of Jakarta; pop. (1990c) 271,711; …
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Full text Article Bogor

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(bō'gôr), formerly Buitenzorg (boi'tӘnzôrkh) [Du.,=free from care], city (1990 pop. 271,341), W Java, Indonesia. At the foot of two volcanoes, it is a highland resort and an agricultural research center, known chiefly for its magnificent botanical gardens (laid out 1817). Adjacent to the gardens is…
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Full text Article bog-butter

From The Oxford Companion to Food
the product of a discontinued custom, practised since medieval times, of preserving fresh butter in bogs. It is associated with Iceland, India, Ireland, Morocco, and Scandinavia ( Evans, 1957 ). In Ireland many examples have been found in bogs whilst turf-cutting. These finds, of various weights, …
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Full text Article Bog Asphodel

From Black's Veterinary Dictionary
(Narthecium ossifragum) A cause of light sensitisation in sheep. Ears, face and legs of white lambs may all be affected. Skin necrosis may follow the inflammation. In severe cases, jaundice may be a complication. Cows have been fatally poisoned by the plant as a result of necrosis of kidney tissue. …
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Full text Article Serbonian Bog, The

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
A great morass, now covered with shifting sand, between the isthmus of Suez, the Mediterranean and the Nile delta. In Strabo's time it was a lake, stated by him to be 200 stadia long and 50 broad, and by Pliny to be 150 miles (240km) long. typhoeus was said to dwell at the…
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