Definitionadj. of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat
Last update: September 5, 2015
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Hydro-xerophytes (bog xerophytes) .Plants which live in ~t, peaty soils, and which possess aeration channels and xeroiilous leaves; e.g., Cladium Mariscus, Eriophorum angustifohium, if bus Chamaemorus, and Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea. [Please select]
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Scents, pungent and singularly exhilarating, were given off by the damp mosses and the peaty moorland soil. [Please select]
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In the depressions on the summit there was a hard, black, peaty-like soil that looked indescribably ancient and unfamiliar. [Please select]
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The greatest effect is remarked on estates situated on the flat lands of the coastal area where peaty soils are a feature. [Please select]
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Water from heaths and moorlands is often acid from certain vegetable acids termed "peaty acids." [Please select]
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It was a man, for I could smell the sweet peaty odour of his Harris tweeds. [Please select]
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Every burn foamed creamy white in the linns and sulked peaty brown in the pools. [Please select]
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Whether with the sea salt, or because I was growing fevered, I was distressed with thirst, and had to stop, as I went, and drink the peaty water out of the hags. [Please select]
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Cities and civilization were far away, and they were alone with the moor and the peaty little brook, and the birds and the sun and the fresh spring wind. [Please select]
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