sea moss

noun

First recorded in 1540–50

Chondrus crispus, called carrageen or Irish moss, and also pearl-moss, and sea-moss.

Her dress was of pale green sea moss, and she wore ornaments of delicate pink coral in her sunny curls.

Laying his fish down upon a bunch of clean sea moss, he examined carefully the muddy beach near the water's edge.

Cutting several broad, green, palmetto leaves, he laid them on the stones and spread over them a thin layer of the moist sea moss.

I would like to exchange wild flowers, for sea-moss or shells—sea-moss preferred.

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