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Agar-agar
noun · 78% connection
A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Alga
noun · 78% connection
A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Algous
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Badderlocks
noun · 78% connection
A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Bream
verb · 78% connection
To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Carrigeen
noun · 78% connection
A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Cauda galli
unknown · 78% connection
A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Chufa
noun · 78% connection
European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Clambake
noun · 78% connection
The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Cyperaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Cyperus
noun · 78% connection
A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Cystocarp
noun · 78% connection
A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Driftweed
noun · 78% connection
Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Dulse
noun · 78% connection
A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Fen
noun · 78% connection
Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy la…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Flagworm
noun · 78% connection
A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Frond
noun · 78% connection
The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.
Fucoid
noun · 78% connection
A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sedge, seaweed.