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sea wrack

Zostera \Zos"te*ra\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Naiadace[ae], or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.

WordNet
sea wrack
  1. n. submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts [syn: eelgrass, grass wrack, Zostera marina]

  2. growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp [syn: wrack]

Usage examples of "sea wrack".

Wet hemp rasped her palms as everyone tailed on to the line, coughed sea wrack out of their lungs, scrabbled for footing on the wet, slick deckā€¦.

Every ogre was inscribed with twisted tattoos and hung with necklaces, bracelets, and anklets cobbled from sharks' teeth, swordfish swords, tarnished brass and silver, broken bottle necks, and other sea wrack.

A star shone against the cobalt of the zenith, and angered, storm-whipped surf slammed beaches tumbled and darkened with sea wrack.

Her hair, dark and glossy as sea wrack, was wound in a thick braid, like a coil of stout rope that wouldn't fray in the worst of winter weather.

I waited among the sea wrack, on the slick sand where last night Hwenit and I had coupled.

The causeway's sides were edged with tide lines of dark sea wrack.