| 单词 | red bog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred bog red bog n. a type of peat bog occurring chiefly in Ireland which has a reddish colour owing to the presence of a particular type of sphagnum moss; cf. raised bog n. at raised adj.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 955 Every red Bog has about it a deep marshy sloughy ground, which they call the bounds of the Bog. 1737 Dublin Soc. Weekly Obs. (1739) I. No. 19. 122 The Crop I mean is Hops; and the Bogs in which I have reared them with most Success, the worst and most useless of all others—the red Bogs. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. iii. 357 The colour of the matter of which they are composed is, for the most part, reddish, whence they are usually called red bogs. Exclusive of the red or flat bogs [etc.]. 1953 Jrnl. Ecol. 41 259 These red bogs undoubtedly correspond to the raised bogs of modern terminology, whose aspect is often dominated by red species of the bog moss Sphagnum. < as lemmas |
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