bladderwrack
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English
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Etymology
Noun
bladderwrack (usually uncountable, plural bladderwracks)
- Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.
- 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 87:
- Someone stood on a string of bladderwrack and made it pop, and some distance away the tide was turning.
Synonyms
- black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, rock wrack
Translations
Fucus vesiculosus
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