peaty

American  

[pee-tee] / ˈpi ti /

adjective

peatier, peatiest

1. of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing the substance peat.

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Etymology

Origin of peaty

First recorded in 1755–65; peat ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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

They often occur on peaty, carbon-rich landscapes and tend to produce more carbon dioxide than other ecosystems when they burn.

From Scientific American • Mar. 3, 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