bog : Idioms & Phrases


american bog asphodel

  • noun of the eastern United States: New Jersey to South Carolina
    Narthecium americanum.
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bog asphodel

  • noun either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
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bog aster

  • noun a variety of aster
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Bog bean

  • . See Buck bean.
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bog bilberry

  • noun an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
    bog bilberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum.
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Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper

  • the bittern. Prov.
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Bog butter

  • a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
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bog candles

  • noun orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
    Habenaria dilatata; bog candles.
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bog down

  • verb get stuck while doing something
    bog.
    • She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation
  • verb cause to get stuck as if in a mire
    mire.
    • The mud mired our cart
  • verb be unable to move further
    mire; get stuck; grind to a halt.
    • The car bogged down in the sand
  • verb cause to slow down or get stuck
    bog.
    • The vote would bog down the house
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Bog earth

  • (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc.
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bog hemp

  • noun any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs
    false nettle.
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bog kalmia

  • noun laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
    swamp laurel; Kalmia polifolia; bog kalmia.
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bog laurel

  • noun laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
    swamp laurel; Kalmia polifolia; bog kalmia.
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Bog moss

  • noun any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
    sphagnum; peat moss; sphagnum moss.
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  • . (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum.
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Bog myrtle

  • noun perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface
    marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; buckbean; bogbean; water shamrock.
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  • (Bot.), the sweet gale.
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Bog ore

  • . (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
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bog pimpernel

  • noun small creeping European herb having delicate pink flowers
    Anagallis tenella.
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bog plant

  • noun a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
    marsh plant; swamp plant.
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bog rein orchid

  • noun orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
    Habenaria dilatata; bog candles.
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bog rhubarb

  • noun small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas
    Petasites vulgaris; Petasites hybridus; butterbur.
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bog rose

  • noun a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada
    Arethusa bulbosa; wild pink; dragon's mouth.
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bog rosemary

  • noun wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States
    Andromeda glaucophylla; moorwort.
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Bog rush

  • (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
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bog soil

  • noun poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation
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Bog spavin

  • noun spavin caused by collection of fluids
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  • . See under Spavin.
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bog star

  • noun plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green
    Parnassia palustris.
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bog whortleberry

  • noun an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
    bog bilberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum.
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common bog rosemary

  • noun erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe
    Andromeda polifolia; marsh andromeda.
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european bog asphodel

  • noun of western Europe: Scandinavia to northern Spain and Portugal
    Narthecium ossifragum.
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northern bog lemming

  • noun of wet alpine and subalpine meadows of Canada and Alaska
    Synaptomys borealis.
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Peat bog

  • noun 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
    bog.
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  • a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss.
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Quaking bog

  • a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon.
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southern bog lemming

  • noun of low bogs and meadows of northeastern and central United States and southern Canada
    Synaptomys cooperi.
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