- sea wrack
- noun Date: 1551 seaweed; especially seaweed cast ashore in masses
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sea wrack
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Sea wrack — (Bot.) See {Wrack}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sea wrack — sea′ wrack n. mcr seaweed or a growth of seaweed, esp. of the larger kinds cast up on the shore • Etymology: 1540–50 … From formal English to slang
sea wrack — n. seaweed, esp. seaweed that has been cast ashore … English World dictionary
sea wrack — noun 1. submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts • Syn: ↑eelgrass, ↑grass wrack, ↑Zostera marina • Hypernyms: ↑aquatic plant, ↑water plant, ↑hydrophyte, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
sea wrack — Zostera os te*ra, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the {Naiadace[ae]}, or Pondweed family. {Zostera marina} is commonly known as {sea wrack}, and {eelgrass}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, esp. of the larger kinds cast up on the shore. [1540 50] * * * … Universalium
sea wrack — /ˈsi ræk/ (say see rak) noun seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore …
sea-wrack — … Useful english dictionary
wrack — Synonyms and related words: algae, autophyte, bean, bloodbath, blue ruin, bracken, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, brown algae, carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave in, climber, collapse, condemn, conferva, confervoid,… … Moby Thesaurus
sea-tang — Cleveland Dialect List sea wrack (seaweed) … English dialects glossary
