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Another word for muskeg

noun

A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water:

bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, quag, quagmire, slough¹, swamp, swampland, wetland. See dry

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The name is probably derived from a Chippewa word, muskeg or muskeg, meaning "grassy bog," still used in that sense in north-western America.

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