Seaweed
['siːwiːd] or ['si'wid]
Definition
(n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
(n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
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Examples
- But shells and seaweed would adhere to the non-corroded surface, and hence the process was not entirely successful. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She means vampire, not seaweed, but it doesn't matter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Another probable source of potash is seaweed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was equally impossible to pull up the seaweed, or to force my hand through it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The sea is a vast reservoir of potash, and seaweed, especially the giant kelp, absorbs large quantities of this potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Martin's body was not among them, and it doubtless lay in a sailor's grave nigh the island, encircled by sand, seaweed, and many-colored shells. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- By the seaside he would have fish, mollusca, and seaweed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All within was the same, down to the seaweed in the blue mug in my bedroom. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- One, aquatic, a yard long, fifteen pounds in weight, with limbs and strong claws admirably adapted for crawling over the rugged and fissured masses of l ava, feeds on seaweed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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