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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Peat, n.  A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water.  It is often dried and used for fuel.
 Peat bog, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss.
 Peat moss. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat. (b) A fen producing peat. (c) Bot. Moss of the genus Sphagnum, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places.
 Peat reek, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel. [Scot.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 peat moss
      n : any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum
          whose decomposed remains form peat [syn: sphagnum, sphagnum
          moss, bog moss]