Wetland that accumulates peat due to incomplete decomposition of plant leftovers.
Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel.
Синонимы
Examples for "mire "
Examples for "mire "
1 A glove is borne aloft; a shoe is trampled in the mire .
2 The proprietor was sinking lower and lower in the mire of dissoluteness.
3 The voice of the serpent,-thatwhispers from the mire of the sea.
4 The more fat the sow is, the more she loves the mire .
5 Let us ascend to the skies, or plunge ourselves in the mire .
1 Dr David Bellamy provides more detailed indication of bogland that is fen.
2 We had uncovered real treasure within that vast tract of desolate bogland .
3 The cutting work was occurring along a boreen through Cloonfush leading to bogland .
4 We soon passed from the bogland into a wilderness of granite.
5 John Seager's daughter was nearly swallowed up by bogland as a small child.
Get stuck while doing something.
Pan-Slavic god or word for "god"
1 This bog has developed for a hundred thousand years without your help.
2 Ireland has several native species of carnivorous plants, growing in bog habitats.
3 The first challenge of the second day was the treacherous vertical bog .
4 There went a minimum of ten thousand pounds, right down the bog .
5 Patrick Joyce's body was found in a bog in Connemara last year.
6 The woodwork throughout the building was stained and finished in bog oak.
7 Will the end result be bog - standard suburban housing blighting the green belt?
8 The bog will be destroyed and this illegal structure along with it.
9 On nearing the edge of the bog the guides slackened their pace.
10 I might lay hold of a linsey-woolsey cloak somewhere in the bog .
11 The bog - standard job of the 20th Century was formal, full-time and permanent.
12 At the edge of the bog he halted and looked keenly about.
13 The deeper the bog , the more my spirit writhed to be free.
14 It lay fifteen miles further on, across a desolate stretch of bog .
15 Raised bog is a popular wetland habitat for rare plants and birds.
16 She was sweating within ten feet of the beginning of the bog .
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