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bull kelp en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The brown alga Nereocystis luetkeana.
    • The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. 2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025:
    • A tiny sparkle caught Ruth’s eye, a small glint of refracted sunlight angling out from beneath a massive tangle of drying bull kelp, which the sea had heaved up onto the sand at full tide. 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 8:

Translations (3)

ems gahnguq (Nereocystis luetkeana) · lut q̓ʷaʔəb (Nereocystis luetkeana) · tli geesh (Nereocystis luetkeana)