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sphagnum
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various widely distributed mosses, of the genus ''Sphagnum'', which slowly decompose to form peat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of mosses, peat-moss, 1741, Modern Latin, from Latin sphagnos , a kind of lichen, from Greek sphagnos "a spiny shrub, a kind of moss," of unknown origin. Related: Sphagnous .
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Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 120 species of mosses , commonly known as peat moss . Accumulations of Sphagnum can store water, since both living and dead plants can hold large quantities of water inside their cells; plants may hold 16–26 times as ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat [syn: sphagnum moss , peat moss , bog moss ]
Usage examples of sphagnum.
Elizabeth felt the spongy give of sphagnum moss through the soft soles of the moccasins she had put on in such haste, along with a doeskin overdress and leggings which Many-Doves had offered.
But his worst adventure--he seemed shy in telling it--was when he was caught without snow-shoes in an early fall blizzard, and crossed unknowingly a bottomless half-frozen sphagnum swamp which heaved under his tread and made him vomit up his soul.
The environment, with its surface layer of sphagnum under which lie thick deposits of peat, is so conducive to birdlife that Loch Fleet and the Dornoch Firth account for most of the more than five thousand birds that winter in the county of Sutherland.
Within were trickling water, growths of feathery black moss, pale cycads, a settle padded with woven reed and sphagnum.
After girdling, the stem is sprayed or dusted with a fungicide and growth regulator, sur- rounded with one or two handfuls of unmilled sphagnum moss, and wrapped tightly with a small sheet of clear poly- ethylene film (4-6 mil).
The very hydraulic press which one hour was moulding shell bases, was in the next devoting its energy to compressing the healing cakes of Sphagnum Moss.
Although this particular use of the moss is generally looked upon as an innovation, we owe the introduction of Sphagnum Moss as a modern surgical dressing to Germany, where its value for this purpose was quite accidentally discovered in the early eighties.
This does not, however, appear likely to lead to any important industry, but absorptive material has been produced from white Sphagnum Moss and Wood Pulp.