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poquoson

poquoson 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

Proper noun capitalized: Poquoson

Poquoson

  1. An independent city in south-east Virginia.

Forms of poquoson

pluralpoquosons

Origin of poquoson

From an uncertain Algonquian word referring to marshy terrain; see pocosin.

Questions about poquoson

What does poquoson mean?
Poquoson means an independent city in south-east Virginia.
What is poquoson the alternative form of?
Poquoson is the alternative form of pocosin.
What part of speech is poquoson?
Poquoson is a proper noun.

Words near poquoson in the dictionary

  1. Poqomam
  2. poquelaye
  3. poquelayes
  4. Poquette
  5. Poquettes
  6. poquoson
  7. poquosons
  8. POR
  9. por que no los dos
  10. por qué no los dos
  11. Porac

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poquoson (page history and authors); Poquoson (page history and authors); pocosin (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.

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