bladder wrack

noun

a common seaweed, Fucus vesiculosus, found in cold marine waters, having narrow brownish fronds with air-filled vesicles.

The Bladder Wrack, and others of the same kind, are torn up by the fierce waves in a storm, and tossed on the beach in heaps.

Now wade into rather deeper water, and you find a great mass of the Bladder Wrack.

They were upholstered with "bladder wrack," a most soft cushion, and in each box a white whale lay on these pneumatic cushions.

“Long strands of bladder-wrack,” said Joe, after cautiously raising one leg from the water.

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