bog : Idioms & Phrases
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- american bog asphodel
- bog asphodel
- bog aster
- Bog bean
- bog bilberry
Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise),Bog blitter ,Bog bluiter ,Bog jumper - Bog butter
- bog candles
- bog down
- Bog earth
- bog hemp
- bog kalmia
- bog laurel
- Bog moss
- Bog myrtle
- Bog ore
- bog pimpernel
- bog plant
- bog rein orchid
- bog rhubarb
- bog rose
- bog rosemary
- Bog rush
- bog soil
- Bog spavin
- bog star
- bog whortleberry
- common bog rosemary
- european bog asphodel
- northern bog lemming
- Peat bog
- Quaking bog
- southern bog lemming
american bog asphodel
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noun of the eastern United States: New Jersey to South Carolina
Narthecium americanum.
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bog asphodel
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noun either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
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bog aster
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noun a variety of aster
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Bog bean
- . See
Buck bean .
Webster 1913
bog bilberry
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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.
Webster 1913
Bog butter
- a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
Webster 1913
bog candles
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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
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verb get stuck while doing something
bog.
- She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation
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verb cause to get stuck as if in a mire
mire.
- The mud mired our cart
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verb be unable to move further
mire; get stuck; grind to a halt.
- The car bogged down in the sand
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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
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noun any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs
false nettle.
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bog kalmia
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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
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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
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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 asSphagnum .
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Bog myrtle
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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
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(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
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noun small creeping European herb having delicate pink flowers
Anagallis tenella.
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bog plant
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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noun poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation
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Bog spavin
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noun spavin caused by collection of fluids
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- . See under
Spavin .
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bog star
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noun plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green
Parnassia palustris.
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bog whortleberry
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noun an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
bog bilberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum.
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common bog rosemary
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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
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noun of western Europe: Scandinavia to northern Spain and Portugal
Narthecium ossifragum.
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northern bog lemming
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noun of wet alpine and subalpine meadows of Canada and Alaska
Synaptomys borealis.
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Peat bog
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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.
Webster 1913
southern bog lemming
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noun of low bogs and meadows of northeastern and central United States and southern Canada
Synaptomys cooperi.