Definition of kelp

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

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Kelpfish :: Kelpfish (n.) A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus..
Kelpware :: Kelpware (n.) Same as Kelp, 2..
Melanosperm :: Melanosperm (n.) An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp..
Skelp :: Skelp (n.) A blow; a smart stroke.
Cyst :: Cyst (n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores..
Kelpy :: Kelpy (n.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned..
Alga :: Alga (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc..
Seaweed :: Seaweed (n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc..
Barilla :: Barilla (n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp..
Cabrilla :: Cabrilla (n.) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon..
Kelpie :: Kelpie (n.) Alt. of Kelp.
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..
Tangle :: Tangle (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp..
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
Skelp :: Skelp (n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain..
Kelp :: Kelp (n.) Any large blackish seaweed.
Oarsweed :: Oarsweed (n.) Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.
Skelp :: Skelp (v. t.) To strike; to slap.
Mannite :: Mannite (n.) A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron..
Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..
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