- muskeg
- noun Etymology: Cree maske•k Date: 1806 1. bog; especially a sphagnum bog of northern North America often with tussocks 2. a usually thick deposit of partially decayed vegetable matter of wet boreal regions
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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