seaweedn.
/ˈsiːwiːd/, U.S. /ˈsiˌwid/ 1. collective. Any marine plants of the class Algæ (see alga n.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun]
sea-frothc1440
wrekec1440
ooze?c1475
wreck1499
wrack1513
moss1543
reek1545
wrake1547
sea-wrack1551
seaweed1577
varec1676
wreck-weed1821
Algal alliance1846
wreck-ware1865
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 56v Wrappe it in seaweede.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Alga marina Reeks or sea weede, Alga.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 404 Part single or with mate Graze the Sea weed thir pasture. View more context for this quotation
1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 260 Mark by what wretched steps their Glory grows, From dirt and sea-weed as proud Venice rose.
1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 91 A fresh manure of sea-weed being laid on each year that barley is sown.
1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xx. 493 Funeral garlands of sea-weed twisted about them by the late tide.
1906 O. C. Malvery Soul Market xvii. 268 Mattresses of American leather stuffed with sea-weed.
2. A particular marine alga.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > a seaweed
alga?1527
reet1538
reeks1566
seaweeda1684
thalassiophyte1842
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 467 Ashes made of a Sea-Weede they bring out of Syria.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 36 He shewed some sea-weeds inclosed in crystal.
1837–42 N. Hawthorne Foot-pr. on Sea-shore in Twice-told Tales 4 A sea~weed, with an immense brown leaf.
1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 414 Whole classes in the plant world—the sea-weeds for instance—have no roots at all.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
seaweed belt n.
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1884 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xiv. 120 The sea-weed belt which fringes the land has an average breadth of about a mile.
seaweed collector n.
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1865 Mrs. L. L. Clarke Common Seaweeds ii. 42 A useful hand-book for the seaweed collector.
seaweed-green n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > dark green
steel-greena1560
bottle-green1785
corbeau1810
forest-green1810
rifle green1829
spinach-green1845
pine green1892
army green1897
malachite1900
seaweed-green1937
1937 Burlington Mag. Oct. p. xxiii/1 A wine-ewer of translucent seaweed green jade.
1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. x. 156/2 Kawakawa..was named from its resemblance to the leaf of a shrub; the colour is dark green in various shades including spinach-green, seaweed-green, and olive-green.
1976 J. Wilson Let's Pretend i. 7 The bunches of seaweed green ribbon.
1979 Guardian 28 Feb. 13/2 The skirt is a seaweed green verging on khaki.
seaweed limpet n.
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1858 H. Adams & A. Adams Genera Recent Mollusca I. 467 The ‘Sea-weed Limpet’ is readily distinguished from the Rock Limpet.
seaweed poultice n.
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185. Mayne Expos. Lex. Cataplasma Fuci, the sea-weed poultice for scrofula [etc.].
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seaweed-covered adj.
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1900 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Jan. 28 Seaweed-covered rocks.
C2.
seaweed-fern n. the hart's tongue, Scolopendrium vulgare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > hart's-tongue
hart's-tonguec1325
hind's tongue1538
scolopendrium1611
scolopender1696
spleenwort1725
hart's-tongue fern1854
seaweed-fern1865
Christ's-hair1878
1865 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip Aug. 190 The Seaweed-fern.
seaweed-marquetry n. (see quot. 1975).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [noun] > types of inlaid work
marquetry1563
tarsia1665
Tunbridge ware1773
stringing1812
parquetry1816
Reisner1833
parquetage1845
intarsiatura1863
tarkashi1878
parquet work1880
intarsia1894
Shibayama1928
seaweed-marquetry1935
1935 Burlington Mag. May 233/2 King William's writing-table in seaweed marquetry, with his cypher.
1967 G. Sims Last Best Friend xiv. 120 The carpet was a spinach-green Gobelin and there were Cromwellian chairs and a seaweed marquetry desk.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Decorative Arts 699/1 Seaweed marquetry, marquetry patterns composed of very fine elements resembling seaweed or endive leaves.
Derivatives
ˈseaweeded adj. covered with seaweed.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [adjective] > full of or covered with
seaweedy1832
seaweeded1845
1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 162 Half hidden in drifted sand, Sea-weeded, mossy, black with age, are bones.
ˈseaweeding n. the action of collecting seaweed.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > seaweed-gathering
vraicking1835
seaweeding1865
1865 Mrs. L. L. Clarke Common Seaweeds i. 17 The preparations for a seaweeding.
ˈseaweedy adj. covered with seaweed; characteristic of seaweed.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [adjective]
seaweedy1832
fucoid1839
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [adjective] > full of or covered with
seaweedy1832
seaweeded1845
1832 F. A. Kemble Let. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) III. 178 Those..sea-weedy shores.
1866 Intellectual Observer No. 53. 335 The sea-weedy smell.
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seaweed wrap n. a type of beauty treatment intended to revitalize the skin and relax the body, typically involving the application of a seaweed-based paste to the skin, and the wrapping of the body in heated sheets.
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1985 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) 26 Aug. b5/2 In addition to the seaweed wraps, there are treatments like the German Thalasso therapy.
2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) xii. 301 I have..regular waxes, pedicures, manicures, body brushings, eyebrow pluckings, massages, seaweed wraps, de-toxes, Cellophane wraps..and I still insist..I just do yoga and drink plenty of water.
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