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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of carrageen.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See carrageen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America

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

  • “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

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