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- noun Plural form of
muskeg .
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Examples
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Once more Andrew passed over it to blaze the trees and to tie streamers in muskegs where the first fall of snow would surely obliterate parts of the trail.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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I would hang on to my pop's snowsuit, as we rode through Alaskan muskegs, down river banks, and up power line trails.
Shannyn Moore: Elisabeth: The Tribe Has Spoken, Ashley Judd has the View 2009
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Thus, spring meltwater may flow over land and enter rivers, or accumulate in the many muskegs, ponds, and lakes characteristic of low-lying tundra areas [14].
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I would hang on to my pop's snowsuit, as we rode through Alaskan muskegs, down river banks, and up power line trails.
Shannyn Moore: Palin's Faith Based Science Creates Policy 2008
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I would hang on to my pop's snowsuit, as we rode through Alaskan muskegs, down ri ...
Shannyn Moore: Palin's Faith Based Science Creates Policy 2008
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However, poorly-drained sites contain muskegs and low lying areas along river channels contain alder (Alnus spp.), cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), and Alaska paper birch (Betula papyrifera).
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I would hang on to my pop's snowsuit, as we rode through Alaskan muskegs, down ri ...
Shannyn Moore: Palin's Faith Based Science Creates Policy 2008
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There we tasted all of summer's searing heat and winter's penetrating hostility, our only neighbors the moose, bears, timber wolves and other wild life of the muskegs and forest; some of whom seemed ever ready to dispute our right to be there at all.
Archive 2007-10-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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