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- noun Plural form of
pocosin .
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Examples
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Evergreen shrub bogs or "pocosins" are characteristic and are found on flat, poorly-drained uplands between major streams.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The carnivorous Venus fly traps (Dionaea muscipula) are native to some of the pocosins and peat bogs of Ecoregion 63 in the Carolinas.
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Pine flatwoods, pine savannas, freshwater marshes, pond pine woodlands, pocosins, and some sandhill communities were once common.
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The vegetation of the high and low pocosins contains a dense shrub layer, along with stunted pond pine, swamp red bay, and sweet bay.
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•Undrained coastal lowlands and tidally influenced river margins support tidal marshes, swamps, floodplain forests, and pocosins.
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Carolina bays and pocosins are abundant in some areas.
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Undrained shallow depressions in savannas form upland bogs or pocosins, in which evergreen shrubs predominate.
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Short pocosins have tress that are less than 20 feet tall.
Pocosins 2008
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Tall pocosins have trees that are over 20 feet tall.
Pocosins 2008
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Today, timber harvesting, peat mining, and phosphate mining join agriculture as the biggest threats to the remaining undisturbed pocosins.
Pocosins 2008
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