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muskeg [< Algonk.; Cree muskāk swamp]

• 1 n. an organic bog which is a brown to black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with a carpet of sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth.

  See also: pothole (def. 4)  sink-hole (def. 1)  muskeg swamp (def. 1)  

• 2 n. terrain made up of or characterized by such bogs.

  See also: muskeg swamp (def. 2)  

• 3 n. the substance (humus, vegetation, etc.) of which such bogs consist.

  See also: muskeg soil  

• 4a n. Prairies loosely: See pothole 1902 quote.

  See also: pothole (def. 3a)  

• 4b n. loosely: a swamp or mud-hole.

• 5 n. Figurative use.