Definitions for Sphagnum

Sphagnum sphag·num

Spelling: [sfag-nuh m]
IPA: /ˈsfæg nəm/

Sphagnum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in Sphagnum (aghmnpsu).

Definitions for Sphagnum

noun

  1. any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.

Origin of Sphagnum

1745-55; New Latin, alteration of Greek sphágnos a moss

Examples for Sphagnum

Pack them in sphagnum moss, put them in cold storage and freeze them solid.

The "Hill Peat" is made up of sphagnum and other mosses and of ferns and heather.

The Bog-moss (sphagnum) overruns them, and renders them barren.

The sphagnum moss will be seen at the base of the upright plant.

As she said nothing, he looked down at the foot-print in the sphagnum.

The white bog-moss (sphagnum palustre) powdered, is applied to excoriations in the skin of young children.

When it can be had, florists or sphagnum moss is an excellent medium in which to pack roots for winter.

Then comes the chance of that wonderful moss the peat-moss, or sphagnum.

It gives me great pleasure to fancy that I see radicles of orchid seed penetrating the sphagnum.

They are round and soft and mossy as hillocks of sphagnum in a green marsh.

Word Value for Sphagnum
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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