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muckland

muckland noun: land whose soil is primarily composed of humus from drained swampland, used for growing certain crops such as onions and carrots.

Noun

muckland (countable and uncountable, plural mucklands)

  1. Land whose soil is primarily composed of humus from drained swampland, used for growing certain crops such as onions and carrots.
    • Abundant and of universal distribution in all kinds of situations except muckland.1889, Samuel N. Rhoads, “Annotated list of land and fresh-water shells recently collected in the vicinity of Miami, Florida”, in Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
    • Pump-drained mucklands (organic soils) to produce crops like cabbage, lettuce, onions, and carrots are likely to still retain wetland hydrology.1999, Ralph W. Tiner, Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Identification, Delineation, Classification, and Mapping

Forms of muckland

pluralmucklands

Origin of muckland

From muck + land.

Questions about muckland

What does muckland mean?
Muckland means land whose soil is primarily composed of humus from drained swampland, used for growing certain crops such as onions and carrots.
What part of speech is muckland?
Muckland is a noun.
What is the plural of muckland?
The plural of muckland is mucklands.

Words near muckland in the dictionary

  1. muckiter
  2. muckiters
  3. muckites
  4. muckity-muck
  5. muckity-mucks
  6. muckland
  7. mucklands
  8. muckle
  9. Muckle-Wells syndrome
  10. muckled
  11. Muckleford

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