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SEAWEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("seaweed" is a kind of...):
alga; algae (primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seaweed"):
arame (an edible seaweed with a mild flavor)
wrack (dried seaweed especially that cast ashore)
seagrass (any of various seaweeds that grow underwater in shallow beds)
sea wrack; wrack (growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp)
sea tang; tang (any of various coarse seaweeds)
Context examples:
It had been a great vessel of three masts but had lain so long exposed to the injuries of the weather that it was hung about with great webs of dripping seaweed, and on the deck of it shore bushes had taken root and now flourished thick with flowers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A type of seaweed.
(Kelp, NCI Dictionary)
But this species, Olea hensoni, has gone rogue, joining two other sacoglossan species – Olea hansineensis in the northeast Pacific Ocean and Calliopaea bellula in the Mediterranean Sea – that abandoned a diet of seaweed to prey on the eggs of their fellow slugs and snails.
(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)
Red algae include phytoplankton and seaweeds, also known as macroalgae.
(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)
Growth spurts of this large seaweed are fueled by a diet of dissolved nitrogen.
(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)
I put up at the old inn, and went down to look at the sea; staggering along the street, which was strewn with sand and seaweed, and with flying blotches of sea-foam; afraid of falling slates and tiles; and holding by people I met, at angry corners.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and University of South Carolina Beaufort, both in the United States, reported warming seas appear to decrease the efficacy of the chemical compounds that corals release into the water to defend themselves from bacteria and encroaching seaweed, but these losses may be mitigated if there are large numbers of hungry fish around.
(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)
Red seaweeds are also used as food thickeners and emulsifiers and in molecular biology experiments.
(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)
It was the completest and most desirable bedroom ever seen—in the stern of the vessel; with a little window, where the rudder used to go through; a little looking-glass, just the right height for me, nailed against the wall, and framed with oyster-shells; a little bed, which there was just room enough to get into; and a nosegay of seaweed in a blue mug on the table.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Some red seaweeds are major crops in Japan, Korea and China, where they serve as sushi wrap, among other uses.
(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)
