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† sea-tree Obs.
1. A huge polyp [L. arbor marina].
1601Holland Pliny xxxii. xi. II. 451 [The ‘greatest monsters’ of the sea are] The Sea-Trees, Whirlepooles [etc.]. 1611Florio, Álbero,..a monstrous sea-fish, called the Sea-tree.
2. Some tree-like seaweed.
1601Holland Pliny xiii. xxv. I. 402 The branches and leaves of the sea trees, so long as they were under water looked greene, but when they be taken forth, presently dried with the heat of the Sunne. 1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 127 Sea-Trees... Certain Trees which are immediately glaz'd with a salt-peter, which renders them extremely white. Some conceive them to be a kind of Coral. 1755tr. Pontoppidan's Nat. Hist. Norway i. 152 The ocean here produces various species of large vegetables, which are known by the name of sea-trees. 1758Phil. Trans. L. 634 This pivot..forms something like the knot of the sea-tree. 1823–4in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XV. 298/2 The sea-tree lines many parts of the coast [of St. Bartholomew], has its leaves platted together, and looks as if it was completely glazed. |