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plural seaweeds
: any of various aquatic and chiefly marine brown, red, or green algae (such as rockweed, gulfweed, and kelp) that often grow in masses, typically have leaflike blades (see blade entry 1 sense 2e), are usually anchored to a solid substrate (such as a rock) by holdfasts (see holdfast sense 2a), and include some (such as dulse, laver, and sea lettuce) that are used as food
… many seaweeds have floats called pneumatocysts, filled with oxygen or carbon dioxide.—
Michael Le Page
Michael Le PageThe word seaweed is broad and refers generally to marine macroalgae, which are algae living in salt or brackish water and visible to the eye.—Elyse Inamine
Elyse Inamine2
: a mass or growth of seaweeds
… soft crabs were easily visible in the seaweed, because the water was crystal clear then.—Keith Walters
Keith Walters3
: harvested seaweed or seaweed parts used especially as food, fertilizer, and in cosmetics
… sushi rolls wrapped in thin sheets of dried seaweed …—Jane Snow
Jane SnowExamples of seaweed in a Sentence
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Now Uh and wife Mina Park focus on a succinct $110 tasting menu, served at a just-right pace designed for Angelenos, with centerpieces like skate wing ssam cradled in butter lettuce with fresh herbs and brightening slicks of gooseberry emulsion and seaweed remoulade.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Park said her favorite roll on the menu is the Olive Garden, a vegan roll filled with avocado, cucumber, pickled radish, seaweed salad and asparagus in soy paper.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
The coating is made in part with alginate which is derived from seaweed but don’t fear, there won’t be any oceanic flavor in your cup.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
Onigiri Bongo The specialty at Onigiri Bongo is rice balls wrapped in seaweed.
—Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
Completion of the reef expansion in 2021 finally brought the thriving seaweed beds and fish families that the commission had been seeking for 30 years.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
The seaweed industry, for its part, is anticipated to help most farmers, especially women, according to the World Bank.
—Jeff Kart, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Satellite images showed the seaweed swath reached a record size for December, more than twice the average size of patches seen in previous Decembers, said Chuanmin Hu, a professor of optical oceanography at the University of South Florida.
—The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
The setting is a fetching backdrop to a surprisingly long a la carte menu whose small-plate highlights include juicy pork belly and kabocha squash gyoza and tuna tartare — red with gochujang and fruity with apple — scooped up with nubby tempura seaweed chips.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Park said her favorite roll on the menu is the Olive Garden, a vegan roll filled with avocado, cucumber, pickled radish, seaweed salad and asparagus in soy paper.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
The coating is made in part with alginate which is derived from seaweed but don’t fear, there won’t be any oceanic flavor in your cup.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
Onigiri Bongo The specialty at Onigiri Bongo is rice balls wrapped in seaweed.
—Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
Completion of the reef expansion in 2021 finally brought the thriving seaweed beds and fish families that the commission had been seeking for 30 years.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
The seaweed industry, for its part, is anticipated to help most farmers, especially women, according to the World Bank.
—Jeff Kart, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Satellite images showed the seaweed swath reached a record size for December, more than twice the average size of patches seen in previous Decembers, said Chuanmin Hu, a professor of optical oceanography at the University of South Florida.
—The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
The setting is a fetching backdrop to a surprisingly long a la carte menu whose small-plate highlights include juicy pork belly and kabocha squash gyoza and tuna tartare — red with gochujang and fruity with apple — scooped up with nubby tempura seaweed chips.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Seaweed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seaweed. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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seaweed
noun
sea·weed
-ˌwēd 
: a plant growing in the sea
especially
: a marine alga (as a kelp)
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