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bladder wrack

American  

noun

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


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From New York Times

In this case, then, tangled and helpless as he was, Harry Paul could only think for a few moments of the time when he swam into the sea-cave at Pen Point at high tide, and felt the long strands of the bladder wrack curl and twist round his limbs like the tentacles of some sea-monster; and he realised once more the chilling sense of helpless horror that seemed to numb his faculties.

From Project Gutenberg

Of course, some of these weeds of the ocean drift from their moorings, like that bladder wrack there with the berries.”

From Project Gutenberg

This Bladder Wrack is reputed to be the Anti-polyscarcique nostrum of Count Mattaei.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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