Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The popular name for Agarum Turneri, a large olive sea-weed: so called on account of the roundish holes in the fronds.

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Examples

  • Time slips by too fast, and when I don't take comprehensive notes on it, I forget because I have a brain like a sea-colander.

    little.red.boat 2009

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