laminarian.
/lamɪˈnɛːrɪə/ A thin, flat, brown seaweed of the genus so called; also known as oar-weed or kelp. Also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies
red ware1699
kelp-weed1805
kelp1839
Macrocystis1847
laminaria1848
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > seaweeds used as fuel or manure
warec725
sea-warec1000
kelpa1387
orewood1586
ore1587
float-ore1602
vraic1610
woad of the seaa1613
oarweed1622
bell-ware1812
laminaria1848
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > sugar-wrack or sea-belt
girdle1548
sea-belt1548
sea-girdle1548
sea-wand1841
laminaria1848
sea-tape1861
sea-staff1865
sugar-wrack1882
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [adjective] > of or belonging to type of seaweed
monosiphonous1853
rhodospermous1856
tetrasporic1857
tetrasporous1874
fucaceous1891
monosiphonic1899
laminaria1935
lithothamnion1935
lithothamnic1967
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [adjective] > of or belonging to type of seaweed > of kelp
kelpy1852
laminaria1935
1848 A. Henfrey tr. M. J. Schleiden Plant xiv. 399 For its [sc. the sea's] trees stand the Laminarias, often 30 feet long, waving their broad bands.
1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Jrnl. 28 June (1998) 277 A long stretch of fine pale sand where the large roots of the laminaria were thrown up in abundance.
1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders 321 The region of the great laminaria or tangle forests.
1875 J. H. Balfour in Encycl. Brit. I. 508/1 The Laminarias, or large tangles of our coasts.
1883 Good Words Aug. 530/1 Below the littoral we come upon the great laminarian zone, the region of waving laminaria, or sea-tangle.
1935 J. E. Tilden Algae vi. 269 Yendo, a Japanese phycologist, gives a recipe for making kombu-maki [printed kombo-mati], or ‘Laminaria roll’.
1963 C. I. Dickinson Brit. Seaweeds 82 The Laminarias are closely related to Macrocystis and Lessonia.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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