Definition of muskeg
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
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local farmers can make extra money by digging peat out of the nearby muskeg
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This is the layer of dead, decomposing sphagnum moss beneath the living layer in the stinky muskeg swamps of the Great White North.
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Origin and Etymology of muskeg
Cree maske·k
First Known Use: 1806
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