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pegasse|pəˈgæs|
Also pegass.
[Etym. unknown.]
A kind of peaty soil found in the Caribbean and northern S. America.
1924Chambers's Jrnl. July 475/1 Suckers should be planted..15 feet apart on pegass or peat soil. 1949Caribbean Q. I. iii. 42 Experiments in Surinam seem to show that the pegasse lands..can be used to grow bananas. 1959Listener 17 Sept. 435/1 The north-west of Guiana is a place of countless ridges of hills islanded in a sea of pegasse swamp. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VIII. 507/1 Pegasse soil, a type of tropical peat, occurs behind the coastal clays and along the river estuaries. |