noun
coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide
• Hypernyms: ↑brown algae
• Hyponyms:
↑fucus, ↑bladderwrack, ↑black rockweed, ↑bladder fucus, ↑tang, ↑Fucus vesiculosus, ↑Ascophyllum nodosum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Fucaceae, ↑family Fucaceae
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun : a coarse seaweed of the family Fucaceae growing attached to rocks; especially : a member of the genera Fucus or Ascophyllum
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/rok"weed'/, n.
a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
[1620-30; ROCK1 + WEED1]
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rockˈweed noun
Bladderwrack or related seaweed growing on rocks
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Main Entry: ↑rock
Useful english dictionary. 2012.