bog iron ore

English

Noun

bog iron ore (uncountable)

1. (geology) Deposit of porous, impure limonite found in bogs and swamps.

Synonyms

• bog iron
• bog ore

Translations

deposit

• Danish: myremalm (da)
• Dutch: moeraserts n, moerasijzer n, oer (nl) n, ijzeroer (nl) n
• Finnish: suomalmi (fi) (in bog), järvimalmi (fi) (in lake)
• French: fer des marais m, fer des lacs
• German: Raseneisenstein m, Raseneisenerz n
• Irish: cac iarainn m
• Italian: ferro di palude m, ferro delle paludi
• Polish: ruda darniowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: ferro dos pântanos m, limonite
• Russian: боло́тная руда́ f (bolótnaja rudá)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: ruda f, bryła f, žygaź f

• Spanish: hierro de los pantanos m, hierro de los prados m, limonite
• Swedish: myrmalm (sv)