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Definition of Carragheen
1. Noun. Dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
Generic synonyms: Red Algae
Group relationships: Chondrus, Genus Chondrus
Definition of Carragheen
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Carragheen
Literary usage of Carragheen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1848)
"Secondly,—the manufacture of a vegetable gelatine from carragheen mosa, applicable
to the construction of capsules of the ordinary description, ..."
2. Medicines, their uses and mode of administration by John Moore Neligan (1864)
"carragheen, or Irish moss. This substance consists of this and many allied species,
... Take of carragheen moss, cleaned, gr. xxx.; spring water, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"carragheen Мои.—Dr. FRANK, of Wolfenbuettel, employs a compound powder of Irish
moss as an article of diet for phthisical patients, and for children ..."
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