genus sphagnum

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1. a large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	moss genus,
definition	:	a genus of mosses (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum, sphagnum moss,
definition	:	any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	order sphagnales, sphagnales,
definition	:	coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass (noun.plant)