HyperDic: genus_sphagnum

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Sphagnum:
NOUNplantgenus Sphagnuma large genus constituting the order Sphagnales
English > genus Sphagnum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningA large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water.
Member ofSphagnales, order Sphagnalescoextensive with the genus Sphagnum
Memberssphagnum, sphagnum moss, peat moss, bog mossAny of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
Broadermoss genusA genus of mosses
Spanishgenus sphagnum
Catalangenus sphagnum

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