Crossword clues for rockweed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rockweed \Rock"weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Ascophyllum nodosum'', a seaweed also known as knotted wrack. 2 ''Fucus vesiculosus'', a similar seaweed also known as bladderwrack.
WordNet
n. coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide
Wikipedia
Rockweed may refer to:
- Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed also known as knotted wrack or Norwegian kelp
- Fucus gardneri, a similar seaweed also known as bladderwrack
- Fucus vesiculosus, a similar seaweed also known as bladderwrack
- Pilea microphylla, a vascular plant native to Florida
- Silvetia, a common brown seaweed of Pacific Ocean rocky seashores
Usage examples of "rockweed".
My fingernails dug into the rockweed and scraped, rather painfully, down several feet.
Every time I tried to pull myself up, my fistfuls of rockweed ripped out.
I clenched my fistfuls of rockweed tight, imagining they were his throat.
The rockweed and wrack swelled into swaying gardens in the watery wind.
Brainer, his once soft coat studded with dry rockweed, thorns, and probably ticks.
The sentience slid along the stems of rockweed, tasting brine and swaying with the undulation of the waves, but it could not travel beyond the shore, for a great submerged barrier sang it back.
When tired of watching the fisherman, they wandered back and forth along the beach in search of curiosities, picking up bits of sponge, rockweed, seaweed, and a greater variety of shells than they had been able to find on other parts of the shore which they had visited.
By March, the ships were off from the Sandwich Islands to the long swell of the Pacific, the slimy medusa lights covering the waters with a phosphorescent trail of fire all night, the rockweed and sea leek floating past by day telling their tale of some far land.