seaweed

See also: sea-weed

English

Etymology

sea + weed

Noun

seaweed (usually uncountable, plural seaweeds)

  1. Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp.
    • 1915, T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
      We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
      By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown ...

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