MOOR

An extensive area of waste ground in high, poorly drained country, overlaid with peat, and usually more or less wet. In popular usage, the word is restricted to the European moors, in which heather is often the prevailing plant, but similar phytogeographical areas occur elsewhere. Sphagnum moss is always characteristic of high moors, and especially in North America various insectivorous (insect feeding) plants flourish in them.