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bladderwrack en · NOUN

Etymology

From bladder + wrack.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.
    • Someone stood on a string of bladderwrack and made it pop, and some distance away the tide was turning. 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 87:

Forms

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bladderwracks Number=Plur lexicographic
bladder wrack alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

rock wrack · black tany · sea oak · black tang · bladder fucus · cut weed · dyers fucus · red fucus · rockweed

Translations (4)

fi rakkolevä (Fucus vesiculosus) · fi rakkohauru (Fucus vesiculosus) · sv blåstång (Fucus vesiculosus) · tr esmer su yosunu (Fucus vesiculosus)