An edible seaweed (see quot. 1894).

From the 17th cent. applied by writers to various marine algæ, and now used as a trade or culinary name for the edible species. laver bread n. also…

A brown seaweed, Alaria esculenta (family Alariaceae), found on North Atlantic coasts, with ribbon-like fronds which are collected locally as food.

Some kind of seaweed; ? = dulse, n. Obsolete.

An edible brown seaweed, Alaria esculenta; = badderlocks, n.

An edible species of seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata, having bright red, deeply divided fronds. In some parts applied to Iridæa edulis.

spec. Either of two species of seaweed, Laminaria (Fucus L.) digitata and L. saccharina, having long leathery fronds, the young stalk and fronds of…

= sloke, n.1

= slawk, n. 1 2.

an edible brown seaweed, Alaria esculenta, of North Atlantic coasts; = badderlocks, n.

A kind of seaweed (Chondrus crispus), also called Irish moss, common on the British coasts, of a cartilaginous texture and a purplish colour…

an edible red seaweed, Chondrus crispus, with flattened, branching fronds, which grows along rocky coasts in Europe and North America, and is used…

the seaweed carrageen, Chondrus crispus (also called Irish moss).

the common name for Plocaria candida, which is imported from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) with some other species (Treasury Bot.); see also quot. 1889.

A brown seaweed, one of the local species of Laminaria, used as food, esp. as a base for stock.

= carrageen, n.

(see quot. 1895).

A dark-coloured seaweed, Sargassum (or Hizikia) fusiforme, that is cultivated as a foodstuff in South-East Asia and typically dried and rehydrated…