Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous marine algae, such as a kelp, rockweed, or gulfweed.
- n. Any of various marine plants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any plant or plants growing in the sea; more particularly, any member of the class Algæ. They are very abundant, especially in warm seas, and are often exceedingly delicate and beautiful. See
Algæ . See also cuts under aircell, conjugation, Fucus, gulfweed, and Macrocystis. Also calledseamoss .
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
- n. (Bot.) Any marine plant of the class Algæ, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
Etymologies
- sea + weed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Indeed, he concludes that the term seaweed is inappropriate for the marine plants in question.”
“The term seaweed carries the connotation that the plants under discussion are useless and worthless.”
“The sun was setting between Eigg and Rum as we reached the deserted beach, only to find "VALHALLA DANCEHALL" spelt out in seaweed letters two foot high, which stumped even the locals.”
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“I launch myself from the wall again, corkscrewing through the water, long goldredbrown hair in seaweed tendrils twisting around me as I twirl.”
“Her gaze travels from an old sideboard with broken drawer pulls to the green curtains hanging like seaweed from the window, resting finally on a scattering of black pellets that confirm the origin of the sound coming from the floorboards.”
“(Size of the kanpyo roled in rice and seaweed is length approximately 9. 5cm)”
“The seaweed is traditionally not thought to be an obvious tropical "resident" because it requires cool water and lots of light.”
“The brown colour of the seaweed is due to the brown pigment fucoxanthin overriding the green pigment chlorophyll.”
“Some are triangle shaped, and wrapped in seaweed, others are round balls of rice, topped with something delicious.”
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“Maybe the seaweed is for the "Agar"??? or are there pieces of seaweed in the caramels?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘seaweed’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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AWE-some-Ful
some MT (empty)+ many awful = sum awe some
Sacajawea, top-drawer, Sulawesi, aweigh, unflawed, sawed-off, megaweber, kahoolawe island, drawerful, yawed, hawed, knawel and 25 more...
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The Sweet Smell of...
Things that smell good.
rain, rose, cinnamon, clove, jasmine, apple, sandalwood, rexo, bamboo, bacon, maple, eucalyptus and 36 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Under Milk Wood
moonless, night, starless, bible-black, cobblestreets, silent, hunched, courters-and-rabbits, invisible, limping, sloeblack, crowblack and 95 more...
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Lifeforms with which I'd like to comm...
Perhaps by means of animal communication.
mould, seaweed, teenager, cheesemite, dugong, spoonbill, new caledonian bu..., forb, titan arum, hydroblab, actuary, william shatner and 6 more...
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Upplucked
Yom.
apricot, macadamia, flan, cheesecake, sushi, sprouts, marmalade, chai, smoothie, cupcake, lasagna, spirulina and 40 more...
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monovocalic trysyllable
There must be some natural English word that contains the same vowel three times. 'English' excludes Bopomofo and Rin Tin Tin; 'natural' excludes contrived things like highlight-like, unhumdrum. An...
abdabs, alate, aye-aye, backpack, bedstead, bow-wow, civic, deadhead, dojo, earthwork, earthworm, forecourt and 43 more...
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Ocean
The curve of a wave, the collapsing of sand, the wave of sun.
water, sand, union, sun, wave, sparse, spray, dry, dehydrated, bright, squint, sizzle and 17 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for seaweed.
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