bog : Idioms & Phrases

• noun of the eastern United States: New Jersey to South Carolina
  Narthecium americanum.
  

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• noun either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
  

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• . See Buck bean.

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• noun an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
  bog bilberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum.
  

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• the bittern. Prov.

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• a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.

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• noun orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
  Habenaria dilatata; bog candles.
  

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• verb get stuck while doing something
  bog.
  
  • She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation
• verb cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  mire.
  
  • The mud mired our cart
• verb be unable to move further
  mire; get stuck; grind to a halt.
  
  • The car bogged down in the sand
• verb cause to slow down or get stuck
  bog.
  
  • The vote would bog down the house

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• (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc.

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• noun any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs
  false nettle.
  

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• noun laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
  swamp laurel; Kalmia polifolia; bog kalmia.
  

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• noun laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
  swamp laurel; Kalmia polifolia; bog kalmia.
  

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• noun any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
  sphagnum; peat moss; sphagnum moss.
  

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• . (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum.

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• noun perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface
  marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; buckbean; bogbean; water shamrock.
  

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• (Bot.), the sweet gale.

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• . (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.

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• noun small creeping European herb having delicate pink flowers
  Anagallis tenella.
  

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• noun a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
  marsh plant; swamp plant.
  

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• noun orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
  Habenaria dilatata; bog candles.
  

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• noun small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas
  Petasites vulgaris; Petasites hybridus; butterbur.
  

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• noun a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada
  Arethusa bulbosa; wild pink; dragon's mouth.
  

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• noun wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States
  Andromeda glaucophylla; moorwort.
  

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• (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.

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• noun poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation
  

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• noun spavin caused by collection of fluids
  

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• . See under Spavin.

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• noun plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green
  Parnassia palustris.
  

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• noun an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
  bog bilberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum.
  

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• noun erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe
  Andromeda polifolia; marsh andromeda.
  

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• noun of western Europe: Scandinavia to northern Spain and Portugal
  Narthecium ossifragum.
  

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• noun of wet alpine and subalpine meadows of Canada and Alaska
  Synaptomys borealis.
  

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• noun wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
  bog.
  

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• a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss.

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• a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon.

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• noun of low bogs and meadows of northeastern and central United States and southern Canada
  Synaptomys cooperi.
  

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