kelp

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  1. noun Any of various brown, often very large seaweeds of the order Laminariales.
  2. noun The ash of these seaweeds, used as a source of potash and iodine.

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  • As soon as they get under those rafts of kelp, the exfoliating cleaner fish come. —  Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish
  • Silvery torpedo-shapes flashed through the kelp, and sail-boats cruised amoung the domes, their bows throwing up white spumes as they raced with the wind. —  Analog July, 1974
  • There were a few sea urchins among the kelp, and as I watched, a swiftly moving shape darted past to snatch one—an otter, I thought. —  Analog July, 1974
  • The forests of this weird land were many trees of brown sea-kelp, whose long arms waved slowly to and fro with the ebb and flow of the water. —  Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
  • There was a wall at the end—just what both men expected after their troubles—but Daeman kept moving the flashlight beam past the kelp, and suddenly they could just barely make out a white square set in the dark bulkhead of exotic material. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
 

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  1. Middle English culp.

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  1. Early modern English also kilp, kylp, from Middle English kelp, kylp, a hook for a pot, also a sheath (orig. hilt?), from Icelandic kilpr, a handle of a vessel, a loop; cf. kelpa, a trap for otters.
  2. Also kilp; origin unknown.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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