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Definition of Rockweed
1. Noun. Coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
Group relationships: Family Fucaceae, Fucaceae
Specialized synonyms: Fucus, Black Rockweed, Bladder Fucus, Bladderwrack, Fucus Vesiculosus, Tang, Ascophyllum Nodosum, Bladderwrack
Definition of Rockweed
1. n. Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
Definition of Rockweed
1. Noun. ''Ascophyllum nodosum'', a seaweed also known as kelp. ¹
2. Noun. ''Fucus vesiculosus'', a similar seaweed also known as bladderwrack. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rockweed
1. a brown seaweed [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rockweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockweed
Literary usage of Rockweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laboratory Manual of Biology by George William Hunter, Morris Crawford Valentine (1906)
"What reason can you give for calling rockweed a thallus ? 3. ... What evidence
can you give that rockweed contains chlorophyll? b. ..."
2. Laboratory Manual of Biology by George William Hunter, Morris Crawford Valentine (1906)
"What reason can you give for calling rockweed a thallus ? 3. ... What evidence
can you give that rockweed contains chlorophyll? b. ..."
3. Introduction to Elementary Practical Biology: A Laboratory Guide for High by Charles Wright Dodge (1894)
"rockweed is to be found almost everywhere along the coast, attached to the surface
of rocks, timbers, shells, etc., or carried along by the currents or cast ..."
4. Guide to Localities Illustrating the Geology, Marine Zoology, and Botany of by Amadeus William Grabau, Joseph Edmund Woodman (1898)
"In consequence, the usual position of this hydroid is under the rockweed, upon
its stems, or on the ledges. Thus it is not only protected from the force of ..."
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