peaty
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of peaty
Example Sentences
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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
Dr Blackwell said this was because the insects breed in damp, peaty soil which naturally occurs in the western half of the country.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023
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
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