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peaty

[ UK /pˈiːti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat

How To Use peaty In A Sentence

  • This inclosure, however, was filled with a dense peaty mass not reduced to mold, the result of centuries of sphagnous growth, which had reached a thickness of nearly An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians
  • Peaty is typically forthright but has mixed feelings about blanket bans for nations. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the extreme tidal limits in wet areas, organic production may exceed sediment supply and peaty organic sediments may then accumulate.
  • The river is a brown, turgid worm as broad as a peaty salmon-spawn stream.
  • Peaty is typically forthright but has mixed feelings about blanket bans for nations. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were many cesspools in the city and more in the suburbs, and slops were being emptied on to peaty land.
  • It has the addictive Hebridean savour of a peaty-iodiney island malt.
  • Their contents are therefore more of the "mucky" than of the "peaty" order, and this may partly account for New England usage in regard to these old English words. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
  • Some were peaty black, like dried moleskins; others had a more southern Somerset ruddiness, a color that to me always seems old, like cheese rind or the face of a red deer. A Year on the Wing
  • It forms long leafy strands, with tiny, pale brown spore cases at the tips, and grows on wet heaths, peaty soil, and other places that are under water for much of the winter, preferably with some disturbance from grazing or vehicles.
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