Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See carrageen.

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  • noun Alternative form of carrageen.

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  • noun dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America

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Examples

  • Afterwards I went out on the cnuceen, a little hill between this cottage and the sea, to watch the people gathering carragheen moss,

    In Wicklow and West Kerry 1890

  • Then we began talking of the carragheen he had gathered and the spring tides that would come again during the summer.

    In Wicklow and West Kerry 1890

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