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rockweed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rockweed has 1 sense
- rockweed(n = noun.animal) - coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide; is a kind of brown algae
is a member of family fucaceae, fucaceae
has particulars: fucus, black rockweed, bladder fucus, bladderwrack, fucus vesiculosus, tang, ascophyllum nodosum, bladderwrack
CIDE DICTIONARY
rockweed, n.
Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus. [1913 Webster]
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