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sphagnum (iou)



sphagnum noun. , -nums. M18.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Greek sphagnos a kind of moss.]
Any of various mosses constituting the genus Sphagnum, which freq. dominate acid bogs and are spongy and absorbent from the presence of numerous hollow porous cells in the leaves and stem cortex; plants of this kind massed together, freq. used as a medium for growing orchids etc. Also sphagnum moss.
Comb.: sphagnum bog, sphagnum swamp: in which the plant life consists chiefly of mosses of the genus Sphagnum.