badderlocks
/ˈbadəlɒks
/(also dabberlocks)
plural noun chiefly Scottish
An edible seaweed with a long greenish frond and prominent midrib, occurring in northern Europe.
- Alaria esculenta, class Phaeophyceae.
- The fronds of dabberlocks are often eroded by the savage battering they take from storms.
- He asserts that the western ebru technique using badderlocks and soluble pigments does not achieve the same aesthetic quality and diversity of the traditional method.
Origin
Late 18th century: perhaps from Balderlocks, based on the name of the god Balder.
- noninflammatory
- non-inflected
- non-information
- non-inherent
- non-injurious
- non-instruction
- non-insulin-dependent
- noninteger
- non-integral
- non-intelligence
- non-intelligent
- non-intercourse
- non-interference
- non-interferer
- non-interfering
- non-interlaced
- non-intervene
- non-intervener
- non-intervening
- non-intervention
- non-interventionalist
- non-interventionism
- non-interventionist
- non-intrusion
- non-intrusionist