Crossword clues for muskeg
muskeg
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of moss bog, 1865, from a Cree Indian word.
Wiktionary
n. (context Canada English) A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce.
Wikipedia
Muskeg (; , lit. moss bog) is an acidic soil type common in Arctic and boreal areas, although it is found in other northern climates as well. Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bogland, but "muskeg" is the standard term in Western Canada and Alaska, while 'bog' is common elsewhere. The term became common in these areas because it is of Cree origin; maskek (ᒪᐢᑫᐠ) meaning low-lying marsh. Large tracts of this soil existing in Siberia may be called muskeg or bogland interchangeably.
Muskeg consists of dead plants in various states of decomposition (as peat), ranging from fairly intact sphagnum moss, to sedge peat, to highly decomposed humus. Pieces of wood can make up five to 15 percent of the peat soil. Muskeg tends to have a water table near the surface. The sphagnum moss forming it can hold 15 to 30 times its own weight in water, allowing the spongy wet muskeg to form on sloping ground. Muskeg patches are ideal habitats for beavers, pitcher plants, agaric mushrooms and a variety of other organisms.
Usage examples of "muskeg".
It is a land drowning in its own juices, with muskeg, quicksand and matted spruce forests making any kind of orderly traverse impossible.
Company, 385 resigns, 467-468 Mercredi, Pierre, 273 Muskeg Limited, 324 M6tis, 52-55, 58-59, 62-67, 68, Mutual Trust, 543 73,75,91,93-96, 163-166 Myers, Gustavus, 146 Mkis Bill of Rights, 65-66 Michener, Roland, 461, 463 Nagle, Edmund Barry, 282 Middleton, Gen.
They loaded the canoes and began a two-mile paddle to the other end of the muskeg pond.
Edna knew well that he had purposely dumped the wannigan box into the muskeg pond.
But the muskeg pond, set deep within the trees, was a place of solitude.
It was at the end of the second muskeg pond that Harry gained a sudden suspicion regarding Alphonse.
If he had ever been through these muskeg ponds before, he would not have forgotten the location of a portage.
They had no trouble finding the last portage from the chain of muskeg ponds, for it was easily observed when they approached it.
The incident at the muskeg portage was proof that Alphonse had made false pretense of his familiarity with this district.
Mongols would not have tarried on Long Lake, nor camped amid the morasses of the muskeg ponds.
He would have been forced, perhaps, to guide the passage through the muskeg ponds only by knowledge of the map.
But all things come to an end at last, and the muskeg melted away, And frowning down to bar our path a muddle of mountains lay.
But I was god-awful homesick, and when I smelt a muskeg again and saw the pointed sticks I could have grat with pleasure.
Rampant vegetation was rising to clog the muskeg swamps, and clouds of mosquito and black fly buzzed and swirled above the soft surface.
Northland, back to the way of the bear, Back to the muskeg and mountain, back to the ice-leaguered sea.