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Sea Colander :: Sea colander () A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes..

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

Littorina :: Littorina (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle..

Tangle :: Tangle (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp..

Oyster-green :: Oyster-green (n.) A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc..

Carpophyte :: Carpophyte (n.) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc..

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.].

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..

Laminarian :: Laminarian (a.) Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow..

Motile :: Motile (a.) Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds..

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

Tang :: Tang (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).

Gelose :: Gelose (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds..

Murlins :: Murlins (n.) A seaweed. See Baddrelocks.

Cauda Galli :: Cauda galli () A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit..

Trichogyne :: Trichogyne (n.) The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds..

Ware :: Ware (n.) Seaweed.

Fucivorous :: Fucivorous (a.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds.

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

Sea Laces :: Sea laces () A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long..

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