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carrageen
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun carrageen has 1 sense
- carrageen(n = noun.animal) carageen, carragheen, chondrus crispus, irish moss - dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America; Array is a kind of red algae
is a member of chondrus, genus chondrus
CIDE DICTIONARY
carrageen, n.
A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus ), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
carrageen, n. (also carragheen) an edible red seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of the N. hemisphere. Also called Irish moss.
Etymology
orig. uncert.: perh. f. Ir. cos{aacute}in{iacute}n carraige carrageen, lit. 'little stem of the rock'
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