muskeg
[muhs-keg]
- a bog of northern North America, commonly having sphagnum mosses, sedge, and sometimes stunted black spruce and tamarack trees.
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Origin of muskeg
1765–75; < Cree maske·k < Proto-Algonquian *maŝkye·kwi swamp
Also called mas·keg [mas-keg] /ˈmæs kɛg/.
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Related Words for muskeg
bog, fen, glade, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, mud, quag, quagmire, slough, swampland, everglade, holm, polder, swale, wetlandExamples from the Web for muskeg
Historical Examples of muskeg
We certainly had muskeg enough yesterday and the day before.
The Young Alaskans in the RockiesEmerson Hough
To my notion, this looks considerable like a muskeg just on ahead of us.
The Young Alaskans in the RockiesEmerson Hough
None the less, here is the muskeg, and here we are with our horses, and we must get across.
The Young Alaskans in the RockiesEmerson Hough
The muskeg, I must remind you, was drained and nothing found.
Prescott of SaskatchewanHarold Bindloss
It was a five-dollar bill on the same bank we found at the muskeg!
Prescott of SaskatchewanHarold Bindloss
muskeg
- undrained boggy land characterized by sphagnum moss vegetationvast areas of muskeg
- a bog or swamp of this nature
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Word Origin for muskeg
C19: from Algonquian: grassy swamp
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Word Origin and History for muskeg
kind of moss bog, 1865, from a Cree Indian word.
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