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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..

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

Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..

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

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

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

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.

Tangly :: Tangly (a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed..

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

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

Seaweed :: Seaweed (n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc..

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

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.].

Phycology :: Phycology (n.) The science of algae, or seaweeds; algology..

Fucus :: Fucus (n.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed..

Macrocystis :: Macrocystis (n.) An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels..

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 Lettuce :: Sea lettuce () The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food..

Frond :: Frond (n.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree..

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