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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seaweed
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And all that good seaweed I collected just sits in a bag in the cupboard, taking up space.
▪ For the first time she could smell the dankness and the odour of rotting seaweed.
▪ Look, they will hide in the lovely seaweed.
▪ Nora is distinctly gloomy tonight-perhaps on account of the seaweed aperitif.
▪ The seaweed in reconnaissance photos turned out to be coral reef that interfered with the landings.
▪ The seaweed should then be left for a month.
▪ The gelatinous orange pebbles peeked up from a wrap of dark, green seaweed under a one-eyed yellow pond.
▪ There was algae and seaweed growing on the top layer of bamboos, which was certainly not there before.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seaweed

Seaweed \Sea"weed`\, n.

  1. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

  2. (Bot.) Any marine plant of the class Alg[ae], as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seaweed

1570s, from sea + weed (n.). An Old English word for it was sæwar; also fleotwyrt ('float-wort').

Wiktionary
seaweed

n. Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp.

WordNet
seaweed

n. plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae

Wikipedia
Seaweed (band)

Seaweed is an American band from Tacoma, Washington who were active throughout the 1990s. Their style of music is a combination of punk rock and grunge, mostly due to its "dirty" sound.

Seaweed (disambiguation)

Seaweed is a generic name for various types of underwater algae. The term may also refer to:

  • Seaweed (band), an American rock band
  • Seaweed (musician), a rock musician
  • Seaweed (British musician), stage name of Christopher Lenox-Smith, keyboard player for the Ozric Tentacles
  • Edible seaweed, algae that can be eaten or used in the preparation of food
Seaweed

Seaweed refers to several species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

The term includes some types of red, brown, and green algae. Seaweed can also be classified by use (as food, medicine, fertilizer, filtration, industrial, etc.).

Usage examples of "seaweed".

Now they were sitting on a bench in front of an open-air tea stand among booths selling sugared rice cakes, ear shellfish, and gift-wrapped packages of dried bonito and papery seaweed.

The next three shots fell short of depicting the beauty and immenseness of the rock formations, but looking at them, Mandy could almost smell the brine and seaweed.

Near the tomb foreshortened vendors were selling roasted nuts, noodles wrapped in paper, tiny bundles of kif, seaweed, bowls of miso and kimshi, and babaku chicken with texasauce.

The train went on through the tunnels, along the slopes, above the water, on straight, wall-like viaducts, and a soft, vague, saltish smell, a smell of drying seaweed, mingled at times with the strong, heavy perfume of the flowers.

Merod Schene glittering against the tapestry of a creeping orange sky, the High City wavering like seaweed amongst hurrying chubby clouds.

Carpenter had no idea what the other ships might be: seaweed collectors, shrimpers, squid-hunters, whatever.

It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.

This medieval market street is a quarter mile long, roofed over with red, green, and yellow awnings, and lined with 141 specialized shops selling raw and cooked foods, seaweed and rice and tofu of every description, fresh-roasted tea, sashimi knives, whiskey, pickles, and more fish than in an average-sized oceana hundred species in cases and tanks, pickled, dried, and salted fish in barrels and trays, fish being grilled over charcoal, fried as tempura, or cut into sushi.

Now, for the first time, I tasted them freshsweet and crunchy arid tenderin a restaurant on the outskirts of Kyoto called Kinsuitei that serves, in thatched pavilions along a shaded lake, a many-course lunch of fresh bamboo: bamboo grilled on bamboo skewers, bamboo shredded with seaweed, bamboo sliced like sashimi with a soy-based dipping sauce, bamboo floating in soup, bamboo simmered in broth, bamboo deep-fried as tempura, and bamboo chopped in rice.

It was in his mind that he should go again to visit his friend, but warm voices called him and he let himself be drawn to where huge arthrostraca were being roasted in seaweed.

Wellness Inn of Big Sur, enduring a voice mailmessage about seaweed wrap and Ayurvedic massage and waiting for a human voice.

The swollen red sun hung in the sky behind the row of masts when Cat took her leave of the Happy Port, with a plump purse of coins and a barrow empty but for salt and seaweed.

Along the sides of the rocks and in the tidepools between them were twenty types of seaweed, the kelps and red-purple lavers, and a species called desmarestia that used poison to ward off predators.

But the tendrils were more like tangled seaweed, or eelgrass, and beneath what she realized was not seaweed at all, but matted, human hair, glinted the glassy eyes of a dead girl!

Off Emden, where the Dutch coast joins the German, she dropped some grappling gear overboard with a dull splash, and shortly there rose dripping from the sea great snakelike monsters, covered with mud and seaweed.