| 单词 | prickly tang |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly tang prickly tang n. Scottish (Orkney and Shetland) an olive-brown seaweed, the serrated wrack, Fucus serratus (family Fucaceae), common on British shores. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > tangle hangera1483 tanglec1540 tang1547 sea-ragged-staff1633 tangle-wrack1721 sea-cabbage1764 prickly tang1795 yellow tang1809 tangle-weed1825 fucoid1848 saw-wrack1868 tangle-work1890 1795 Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 233 The jagged or serrated sea-weed commonly known by the name of prickly tang in this country [sc. Orkney]. 1810 Edinb. Rev. 17 146 The prickly tang..often grows intermixed with the bladder-wrack. 2001 Scotsman (Nexis) 8 Dec. 17 Those seaweeds growing between high and low water mark are known as ‘tang’ whereas those growing at or below low tide are known as ‘ware.’ Tang and ware come in many forms—bow-tang, paddy-tang, prickly tang, mirkle, honey-ware, hen-ware. < as lemmas |
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