noun
1. submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
• Syn: ↑eelgrass, ↑grass wrack, ↑Zostera marina
• Hypernyms: ↑aquatic plant, ↑water plant, ↑hydrophyte, ↑hydrophytic plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Zostera, ↑genus Zostera
2. growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
• Syn: ↑wrack
• Hypernyms: ↑seaweed
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noun1.
a. : a growth of seaweed especially of the large forms (as rockweeds and kelps)
b. : a plant (as the bladder wrack) that tends to form large sea wracks
2. : eelgrass 1
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seaweed or a growth of seaweed, esp. of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
[1540-50]
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sea wrack noun
1. Coarse seaweeds of any kind
2. Grasswrack
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Main Entry: ↑sea
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sea wrack,
seaweed, especially any of the large, coarse kinds cast upon the shore.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.