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Driftweed

Driftweed \Drift"weed`\, n. Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
--Darwin.

Usage examples of "driftweed".

With characteristic cunning--a cunning which grows keener and keener in the neighborhood of civilization--the mother-otter filled up the land entrance among the roots with earth and driftweed, using only the doorway under water until it was time for the cubs to come out into the world again.

Meanwhile we had picked up our two dead ones, and beautiful birds they were, weighing not less than about thirty pounds each, and were chasing the winged one, which had scrambled over a mass of driftweed into a pool of clear water beyond.

The feet of Mistherd flew over yerba and outpaced windblown driftweed.