BLADDER FUCUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

Synonyms:

black rockweed; bladder fucus; bladderwrack; Fucus vesiculosus; tang

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bladder fucus" is a kind of...):

rockweed (coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide)

Holonyms ("bladder fucus" is a member of...):

genus Fucus (type genus of the family Fucaceae: cartilaginous brown algae)

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