peaty
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of peaty
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The new space cannot fully replicate the experience of visiting the cavernous undercroft when it was still raw and unfinished, with bottom-level soil so peaty that residue clung to one’s shoes for days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
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 way grew steeper and the earth darker, a peaty black dotted with gorse.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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