SEAWEED
ADJECTIVES
► FUCIVOROUS – eating seaweed → 1860
► ORY tasting or smelling of seaweed → 1854 Eng. dial.
► TANG-COVERED of a rock: covered in seaweed → 1888 Sc.
NOUNS
► TANG large coarse seaweed → 1547 Eng. dial.
► BLIBBANS ► BLIBBARS strips of soft or slimy stuff; generally used of seaweed on rocks at ebb tide → Bk1824 Sc.
► DAVY JONES’ BEARD seaweed → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► GALYEW the slimy coating of green seaweed on an ebbed shore → 1936 Sc.
► GAR any slimy, filthy, or muddy substance; that produced by algae in a pond or river; green seaweed; any sticky, miry mess → 1808 Sc.
► GRASS seaweed → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► KELP RAFT a mass of kelp floating on the sea → 1897
► NEPTUNE’S BEARD seaweed → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► ORE seaweed, esp. such as is cast on the shore and gathered for manure → 1592 Eng. dial.
► ORE-MONGEL seaweed → 1823 Eng. dial.
► ORE-STONE a rock covered with seaweed → 1854 Eng. dial.
► ORE-WEED seaweed washed ashore by the tide → 1586 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ROCKWEED seaweed → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCORLINS slimy, cord-like seaweed → 1899 Sc.
► SEA BEARD seaweed → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► SEA-BLUBBER a bladder-wrack (a common seaweed found in cold marine waters, having narrow brownish fronds with air-filled vesicles → 1681 obs.
► SEA-ORE seaweed, esp. such as is cast on the shore and gathered for manure → 1592 Eng. dial.
► SEA-TANG large coarse seaweed → 1859 Eng. dial.
► SEA-TANGLE a general term for the larger seaweeds → 1536
► SLODGE a kind of edible seaweed → Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► TANG-COW a bunch of seaweed → 1889 Sc.
► TANGLE a general term for the larger seaweeds → 1536
► TANGLE-WEED a general term for the larger seaweeds → 1834
► TANGLE-WRACK a general term for the larger seaweeds → 1721
► VAREC seaweed → 1676
► WARE seaweed; esp. large drift seaweed used as manure → c725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WRACK marine vegetation, seaweed, or the like, cast ashore by the waves or growing on the tidal seashore → 1513
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