Definition of seaweed

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Seaweed (n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea..

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Kelp :: Kelp (n.) Any large blackish seaweed.
Tangly :: Tangly (a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed..
Fucivorous :: Fucivorous (a.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds.
Sloakan :: Sloakan (n.) A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.
Seaware :: Seaware (n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles..
Oyster-green :: Oyster-green (n.) A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc..
Sea Thongs :: Sea thongs () A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds..
Ware :: Ware (n.) Seaweed.
Badderlocks :: Badderlocks (n.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware..
Alga :: Alga (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc..
Utricle :: Utricle (n.) A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed..
Sea Laces :: Sea laces () A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long..
Macrocystis :: Macrocystis (n.) An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels..
Cystocarp :: Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores..
Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..
Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..
Florideae :: Florideae (n. pl.) A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.
Algology :: Algology (n.) The study or science of algae or seaweeds.
Henware :: Henware (n.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks..
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