bog body
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1996, D. Brothwell, European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation, Konrad Spindler, Harald Wilfing, Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Dieter zur Nedden, Hans Nothdurfter (editors), The Man in the Ice, Volume 3: Human Mummies, Springer, page 161, Records of bog body discoveries extend back to 1640, this date referring to a find in Shalkholz Fen in Schleswig Holstein (Glob, 1969)."
- "The presence of particles of Sphagnum in a sample of stomach contents of a bog body has been cited as evidence that the victim drank bog water with her/his last meal (Fisher, 1998)."
- "Recently excavated bog bodies have been intensively recorded, analyzed in great detail, and conserved for long-term preservation and museum display."
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
bog person