Word.ws English Dictionary

pegasse

/pəˈɡæs/

pegasse noun: peat; dark, spongy, acidic, soil of decomposed vegetation (peat), especially in Guyana.

Noun

pegasse (uncountable)

  1. Peat; dark, spongy, acidic, soil of decomposed vegetation (peat), especially in Guyana.
    • The swampland is an extensive pegasse swamp, which is rich in organic matter and intensely acidic.2015, Ramesh Gampat, Guyana: from Slavery to the Present, volume 2

Origin of pegasse

Possibly from a corruption of dialectical variants of peat grass.

Words formed from pegasse

Questions about pegasse

What does pegasse mean?
Pegasse means peat; dark, spongy, acidic, soil of decomposed vegetation (peat), especially in Guyana.
What part of speech is pegasse?
Pegasse is a noun.
How do you pronounce pegasse?
Pegasse is pronounced /pəˈɡæs/.

Words near pegasse in the dictionary

  1. pegasister
  2. pegasisters
  3. Pegasoid
  4. Pegasos
  5. pegaspargase
  6. pegasse
  7. pegassey
  8. pegassy
  9. pegasus
  10. pegasuses
  11. pegboard

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pegasse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pegasse.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pegasse. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.