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Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture..

Phycography :: Phycography (n.) A description of seaweeds.

Ulva :: Ulva (n.) A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce.

Florideae :: Florideae (n. pl.) A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.

Seaware :: Seaware (n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles..

Lumpfish :: Lumpfish (n.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl..

Sea Scurf :: Sea scurf () Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc..

Fucusol :: Fucusol (n.) An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds..

Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..

Tetraspore :: Tetraspore (n.) A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds..

Badderlocks :: Badderlocks (n.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware..

Algous :: Algous (a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed..

Limu :: Limu (n.) The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc..

Bream :: Bream (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping..

Nereocystis :: Nereocystis (n.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds.

Seabeard :: Seabeard (n.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

Pepper Dulse :: Pepper dulse () A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency.

Utricle :: Utricle (n.) A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed..

Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.

Agar-agar :: Agar-agar (n.) A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

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