muskeg
muskeg — noun
1. a type of wet, spongy ground found in cold northern areas such as Canada and Sib
a type of wet, spongy ground found in cold northern areas such as Canada and Siberia, covered with moss and small shrubs, where the soil stays waterlogged for most of the year and trees cannot grow well.
Owen lost his boot in the thick muskeg while hiking near Hudson Bay.
collocation: thick muskeg
The research team needed special boots to cross the wet muskeg without sinking.
Vast areas of muskeg stretch across northern Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Walking across a muskeg in summer is difficult because the ground is so soft.
文法句型
muskeg (countable) / muskeg (uncountable: the landscape type)
用法筆記
Commonly treated as uncountable when referring to the landscape type (e.g., "areas of muskeg"), but countable when referring to a specific patch (e.g., "a muskeg"). Mostly used in Canadian and Alaskan contexts.
常見錯誤
2. a thick layer of partly rotted plant material, mainly moss, that builds up over
a thick layer of partly rotted plant material, mainly moss, that builds up over thousands of years in the cold, wet ground of northern forests and tundra, often harvested as a source of fuel or garden soil.
The workers dug into the muskeg to extract peat for heating their cabins.
uncountable: the muskeg (material)
Tariro studied how layers of muskeg preserve ancient pollen for climate research.
collocation: layers of muskeg
Deep muskeg can be several metres thick and contains a record of past vegetation.
Noor noticed that the dark muskeg soil held moisture long after the rain stopped.
文法句型
muskeg (uncountable)
用法筆記
Uncountable when referring to the material itself (e.g., "digging muskeg"). This sense is more technical than sense 1 and is mainly found in geology, botany, and ecology writing.