peaty
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of peaty
Example Sentences
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One of the reasons fires continued to burn on moorland was because of its peaty soil which fuels the flames.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
The peaty black soil in the delta made it the top asparagus-growing region in the state and — at one point — the nation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
Archeologist Frank Cushing, who led an 1896 expedition that unearthed it from peaty muck in Marco Island, south of Naples, called it the “mountain lion god.”
From National Geographic ● Apr. 24, 2023
The smell of burning tyres is caused by the brown coal in the area's peaty soil which is fuelling the fire underground.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2023
After inspecting the site itself—a wet, peaty bank strikingly unlike the sere desert home of Folsom and Clovis—the archaeologists ended up at a dimly lighted cantina with the appropriate name of La Caverna.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The darker, the peatier, the smokier, the better.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
David said he was expecting more variation among them, and recalled that years ago blended Scotches were maltier and peatier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
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