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pocosen

pocosen is the alternative form of pocosin.

Meaning of pocosin

Noun

pocosin (plural pocosins)

  1. (US) A low, wooded swamp in (especially coastal) Eastern Maryland, Virginia or the Carolinas; a palustrine wetland with deep, acidic peat soils.
    • One has to go down "on all fours" to get below the dense tangle of vegetation. Each step in the soft peat is uncertain. The reward is a pocosin community full of wildflowers.2001, Richard Dwight Porcher, Douglas Alan Rayner, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, University of South Carolina, page 95

Forms of pocosen

pluralpocosens

Questions about pocosen

What is pocosen the alternative form of?
Pocosen is the alternative form of pocosin.

Words near pocosen in the dictionary

  1. pocong
  2. pocongs
  3. Pocono
  4. Poconos
  5. POCOs
  6. pocosen
  7. pocosens
  8. pocosin
  9. pocosins
  10. pocoson
  11. pocosons

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