Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seaweed, Fucus vesiculosus: so named from the floating-vesicles in its fronds. Also called bladder-kelp, sea-oak, and sea-wrack. See
Fucus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun similar to and found with black rockweed.
- noun common black rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Fucus vesiculosus, a
seaweed in whichiodine was first discovered.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
- noun similar to and found with black rockweed
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Examples
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Fucus Vesiculosus, or bladderwrack is a seaweed rich in iodine, which, if used in safe quantities, can prevent under-active thyroid in the same way iodized salt does.
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Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed also known as bladderwrack, gets a " C " grade as a diet aid from Natural Standard Research Collaboration, a Cambridge, Mass., scientist-owned group that evaluates natural therapies .
Do Patches Help Weight Loss? Laura Johannes 2010
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Seaweeds such as bladderwrack can become contaminated with heavy metals.
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I tried to content myself with the things that washed up from the sea and tangled in the cage of my roots - kelp and bladderwrack, crabs and mollusks.
Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009
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Finally, bladderwrack can be contaminated with dangerous heavy metals if it is harvested from contaminated waters.
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Who knows where the pink patch gets its bladderwrack?
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In addition, research has found that bladderwrack can cause menstrual cycle changes and possibly kidney damage at high doses.
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You see this is exactly what happens when you are employed in the caring professions and something goes all pear-shaped at work and you have to sort it or you won't sleep, so you wash up on the shores of home late in the evening feeling like a bit of old bladderwrack (is that seaweed or an illness?).
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You see this is exactly what happens when you are employed in the caring professions and something goes all pear-shaped at work and you have to sort it or you won't sleep, so you wash up on the shores of home late in the evening feeling like a bit of old bladderwrack (is that seaweed or an illness?).
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You see this is exactly what happens when you are employed in the caring professions and something goes all pear-shaped at work and you have to sort it or you won't sleep, so you wash up on the shores of home late in the evening feeling like a bit of old bladderwrack (is that seaweed or an illness?).
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