Seaweed

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  • noun. Any of numerous marine algae, such as a kelp, rockweed, or gulfweed.
  • noun. A mass of such algae.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any plant or plants growing in the sea; more particularly, any member of the class Algæ.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
  • noun. Any marine plant of the class Algæ, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
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  • noun. Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp.
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  • noun. plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
    • Word Usage
    "Indeed, he concludes that the term seaweed is inappropriate for the marine plants in question."
    cross-reference
    sea vegetable  seaweed-bath  seaweed-fern  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alga  algae  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    arame  sea tang  sea wrack  seagrass  tang  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Herb  algae  celery  crab  driftwood  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    algae  autophyte  bean  bracken  brown algae  
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