boggy's Usage Examples:

Lime is a base and neutralizes the acid materials present in badly drained meadows and boggy pastures.

For example, the country gone over is seldom level springy turf; it is up hill and down dale, across ridge and furrow, over ground studded with ant-hills (which, unlike mole-hills, are often very hard), over ploughed or boggy land.

It never grows in wet boggy places, never in woods, or on or about stumps of trees.

You will also get a very boggy patch in the lawn, where the water from the base slops over the side.

, is a pretty prostrate subshrubby species, with handsome rose-pink flowers, suitable for rockwork, and prefers boggy soil; P.

Winter-green (Pyrola) - Little evergreen plants of the northern woods and boggy or sandy places, very distinct and attractive both in leaf and flower.

Boggy shale 2000-2600The soil is light and sandy, but much of the land reclaimed in the boggy districts is very fertile.

St Lawrence and Hudson Bay in eastern Canada also presents one or two lakes draining each way, but in a much less striking position, since the water-parting is flat and boggy instead of being a lofty range of mountains.

Bog-asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), a member of the same family, is a small herb common in boggy places in Britain, with rigid narrow radical leaves and a stem bearing a raceme of small golden yellow flowers.

Less common specialities of these boggy areas include bog pimpernel, bog asphodel, round-leaved sundew and pale butterwort.

By extravasation of blood is meant the pouring out of blood into the areolar tissues, which become boggy.

The country is dotted over with large and small lakes, generally salt or alkaline, and intersected by streams, and the soil is boggy and covered with tussocks of grass, thus resembling the Siberian tundra and the Pamirs.

BUTTERWORT, the popular name of a small insectivorous plant, Pinguicula vulgaris, which grows in wet, boggy land.

Synonyms:

miry, sloppy, muddy, marshy, squashy, swampy, quaggy, wet, soggy, waterlogged, sloughy, mucky,

Antonyms:

dryness, light, active, clean, dry,