Peatlike

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or resembling peat; peaty.

    "In the few areas underlain by horizontally bedded limestone, the surface soil is dark gray to black and peatlike, and the subsoil gray and marllike."

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"In the few areas underlain by horizontally bedded limestone, the surface soil is dark gray to black and peatlike, and the subsoil gray and marllike."

Etymology

From peat + -like.

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