Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various brown, often very large seaweeds of the order Laminariales.
- n. The ash of these seaweeds, used as a source of potash and iodine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hook or crook by means of which a pot or kettle is hung over a fire.
- n. A sheath.
- n. Large seaweeds, such as are used in producing the manufactured kelp. In coast regions kelp is largely employed as a fertilizer, especially in the west of Ireland. It is composed chiefly of Fucaceæ and Laminarieæ. In New England it includes especially species of Laminaria called devil's-apron, Agarum Turneri, the sea-colander, and Alaria esculenta, besides littoral species of Fucus called
rockweed . - n. Specifically, the seaweed Macrocystis pyrifera, of the Pacific coast of North and South America, etc. Its tough, slender stems are said to grow-sometimes more than 600 feet long. Ascending from submarine rocks, it reveals their presence to sailors; and it forms an extensive tangled mass which serves on exposed coasts as a natural breakwater.
- n. The product of seaweeds when burned, from which carbonate of soda is obtained. It was formerly much used in the manufacture of glass and soap, and large quantities of iodine are now obtained from the residue after the carbonate of soda is separated.
- n. A young crow.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.
- n. (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
Etymologies
- Middle English culp. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The weed thus drawn to shore was subsequently sorted, the greater part being used for manure, while the rest was burned in one of those rough kilns that abound along the coast, and reduced to kelp, which is used in the manufacture of soap and glass, and from which iodine is extracted.”
“Tregarthen could recall the kelp-making, but neither the circumstances of the collapse nor the sufferings that followed it.”
“There is a farm on a neck of land belonging to this town (Marblehead, Mass.), which has peculiar advantages for collecting sea kelp and sea moss, and these manures are there used most liberally, particularly in the cultivation of cabbage, from eight to twelve cords of rotten kelp, which is stronger than barn manure, and more suitable food for cabbage, being used to the acre.”
“Police posted the warnings Wednesday after two surfers reported seeing a small great white shark beyond what's called the kelp line.”
“Seaweed and particularly kelp, which is known to contain iodine as well as other essential minerals and trace elements, is for this reason often recommended by natural health practitioners as part of a dietary treatment for candidiasis.”
“The researchers found that a selenium supplement he was taking contained kelp, which is a rich source of iodine and significantly increased his iodine levels.”
“Note: Kombu (also known as kelp) is a type of sea vegetable, available in food co-ops.”
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“Kombu, a kind of kelp, can be added to a pot of rice to add nutrients.”
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“Macroalgal biomass (i.e., large plants such as kelp and sea-tangle) in the Arctic is believed to be small due to habitat restrictions caused by freezing, ice scouring by small icebergs, and local freshwater input.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kelp’.
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Words with a P in them
opalescent, apposite, kelp, culprit, corporeal, copper, impinge, impose, impetus, impassible, oppress, maple and 40 more...
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thing
apron, lard, clove, camphor, alfalfa, amber, caraway, juniper, kohl, lute, shale, glyph and 142 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
koyukon, chinook, coho, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit, samlet, parr and 221 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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Warp, Woof, Wimble
My favorite words.
prurient, locution, mondegreen, vaunted, lugubrious, larine, warp, woof, wimble, ineffable, pyknic, sodden and 114 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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mad the wordie
words that I like
sparsile, inchoate, asparagus, dendrochronology, primifluous, psalloid, cetacean, roots, birches, spires, mythopeia, intricate and 167 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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.la mer
ballast, barnacle, brackish, brine, shell, shore, nautical, kelp, krill, littoral, nautilus, estuary and 14 more...
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beachcombing
seashell, anemone, aquamarine, sand dollar, kelp, tide, ebb, lighthouse, quay, parasol, harbor, pacific and 27 more...
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eudoxia's Words
trajectory, albeit, surinam, parseval, heraklit, granular, ostensibly, doctor zhivago, takoradi, octothorpe, herr mannelig, adenosine and 58 more...
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acts of levitation
words from one of my favorite books, acts of levitation, by laynie browne
ametropian, pogonip, muslin, acciacatura, disentangling, nacreous, gossamer, lilting, sparrow, lash, sundered, afternoon and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kelp.
reesetee Yes, it does. If you ask me, though, the Kelp Gull is a bit strange-looking itself. ;-) Dec 2, 2008
vanishedone I expect the tag refers to the kelp gull, but I'm nevertheless getting some strange mental images. Dec 2, 2008