Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An edible red seaweed (Palmaria palmata) that grows on rocky shores on both sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata, belonging to the order Florideœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) 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 alsodillisk. ]
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- noun A
seaweed of areddish -brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimeseaten , as in Scotland.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coarse edible red seaweed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our living now is very hard, shell-fish are very scarce, and difficult to be had; the sea - weeds are our greatest support; we have found a sort of sea-weed which we call dulse, it is a narrow weed, growing on rocks in the sea, which, when boil'd about two hours, thickens the water like flour; this we esteem a good and wholsome food.
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Dinger asked, pointing to a rock covered in the brown edible seaweed called dulse.
The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007
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Thousands of strange forms sport under the shadow of the brown, waving sea-weeds, or among the delicate scarlet fronds of the dulse, which is found growing in the little ponds that the inequalities of the beach have retained.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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This was a marine plant called dulse, which, in these waters, grows very plentifully, and is gathered and dried by the people in large quantities.
Lost in the Fog James De Mille
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Finstone with a creel on her back, had given him all his hands could hold of the sea-weed called dulse, presumably not from its sweetness, although it is good eating.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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In Step 1, when the nuts are just about toasted, add ½ cup shredded nori or arame or dulse.
The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010
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An old man came by kayak to collected dulse, the seaweed strewn on the shore, and watching him, I spied the carcass of a minke whale beached by a far cliff.
Lea Lane: The Inner Journey I Had To Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff 2009
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* I like to put it in a bowl and add steamed veggies (like kale or broccoli) and then drizzle everything with olive oil, dulse flakes, and tamari or Bragg's liquid amino acids.
Sara Avant Stover: Unplug and Recharge: 5 Steps to a Colorful Meal 2009
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The flavor associated with winter is salty and rather than relying on table salt, learn to enjoy the wonderful mineral rich seaweeds such as kelp, nori, hiziki, and dulse which can be used to season food.
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Vanadium is found in dulse, kelp, and other seaweed as well as in large marine fish and in the fishmeal made of marine-phosphate fed to poultry.
What foods, minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids help your eyes? 2009
sionnach commented on the word dulse
kind of red Scottish and Irish seaweed used as food.
October 24, 2008
jojimyers commented on the word dulse
Also hand-harvested on Grand Manan Island (Dark Harbour and elsewhere) in New Brunswick, Canada and Ironbound Island, Winter Harbor, Maine, USA as "Wild Atlantic Dulse" (Palmaria palmata). Many wet "tons" to yield very few "pounds" in the lowest cycles of tides, created by our Moon. Sundried on rocks and/or nets.
October 22, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word dulse
Not to be confused with pulse.
October 22, 2009