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单词 kelp
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
kelp /kɛlp/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Microbiologya large brown seaweed used as food and in manufacturing processes.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
kelp  (kelp),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes. See illus. under stipe. 
  2. a bed or mass of such seaweeds.
  3. the ash of these seaweeds.

v.i. 
  1. to burn these seaweeds for their ash.
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  • apparently dialect, dialectal variant of Middle English culp 1350–1400

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
kelp /kɛlp/ n
  1. any large brown seaweed, esp any in the order Laminariales
  2. the ash of such seaweed, used as a source of iodine and potash
Etymology: 14th Century: of unknown origin
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