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bladderwrack

British  
/ ˈblædəˌræk /

noun

  1. any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum , esp F. vesiculosus , that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders

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The waulkers “sing of the sea and land: birds and bladderwrack, deer and fairies,” Cathy Haynes tells us in “The Fullness of Time.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Perry writes of blue lias and saltings; gorse thickets and bladderwrack; coltsfoot and cowslips.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2017

A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

What was that dark-green object that kept appearing and disappearing, half-hidden by a mass of floating brown bladderwrack?

From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela

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