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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
peat/piːt/

▶noun partly decomposed vegetable matter forming a deposit on acidic, boggy ground, dried for use in gardening and as fuel.

– derivatives
peaty adjective (peatier, peatiest).

– origin ME: from Anglo-Latin peta.

'peat' also found in these Oxford entries:

blanket bog - bog moss - bog oak - briquette - finnan - lignite - mire - moss - moss hag - peatland - peat moss - raised bog - sphagnum - stratify - three-peat - turbary

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