Fen vs. Bog — What's the Difference?

A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetlands along with marshes, swamps, and bogs.

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands.

An area of low wet land having peaty soil and typically being less acidic than a bog.

An area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body

A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.

The toilet.

Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.

Be or become stuck in mud or wet ground

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Go away

Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water;

Start a task enthusiastically

An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

Chiefly British Slang A restroom or toilet.

To cause to sink in a bog

To hinder or slow

To be hindered and slowed.

An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.

(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.

(uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.

A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.

An act or instance of defecation.

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

(obsolete) nodot=1: a bugbear, monster, or terror.

(obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.

To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.

(figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.

To sink and stick in bogland.

(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

To defecate, to void one's bowels.

To cover or spray with excrement.

To make a mess of something.

To provoke, to bug.

To go away.

(obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel

Cause to slow down or get stuck;

Get stuck while doing something;