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English
Etymology
From oar + weed.
Noun
oarweed (plural oarweeds)
- A brown alga, Laminaria digitata, found on exposed shores.
1627, John Speed, “Cornwall”, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged. , London: Georg Humble , →OCLC, signature , verso, paragraph 3:The Soile for the moſt part is lifted vp into many hilles, parted aſunder vvith narrovv and ſhort vallies, and a ſhallovv earth doth couer their out-ſide, vvhich by a Sea-vveede called Orevvood, and a certaine kinde of fruitfull Sea-ſand, they make ſo ranke and batten, as is vncredible.