bog n.
 1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
 Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,
 Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.   --R. Jago.
 2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.]
 Bog bean. See Buck bean.
 Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.]
 Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
 Bog earth Min., a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc.
 Bog moss. Bot. Same as Sphagnum.
 Bog myrtle Bot., the sweet gale.
 Bog ore. Min. (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
 Bog rush Bot., any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
 Bog spavin. See under Spavin.

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 buckbean, Buck bean Bot. A perennial plant (Menyanthes trifoliata)  of Europe and America which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white, reddish,  or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.  It often roots at the water margin and spreads across the surface.
 Syn: -- water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata.

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