peatlike

adj

peatlike

adj

Etymology From peat + -like.

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.1954, Soil survey of Wise County, Virginia, page 28:

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