Definition of seaweed

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Seaweed (n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea..

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Tang :: Tang (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds..
Reit :: Reit (n.) Sedge; seaweed.
Ware :: Ware (n.) Seaweed.
Pepper Dulse :: Pepper dulse () A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency.
Sea Snail :: Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds..
Comatula :: Comatula (n.) A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars..
Laminaria :: Laminaria (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp..
Sea Thongs :: Sea thongs () A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
Dulse :: Dulse (n.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.].
Motile :: Motile (a.) Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds..
Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
Algous :: Algous (a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed..
Trichogyne :: Trichogyne (n.) The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds..
Utricle :: Utricle (n.) A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed..
Henware :: Henware (n.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks..
Phycography :: Phycography (n.) A description of seaweeds.
Carpophyte :: Carpophyte (n.) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc..
Oyster-green :: Oyster-green (n.) A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc..
Rhodosperm :: Rhodosperm (n.) Any seaweed with red spores.
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