rockweed

[ rok-weed ]

/ ˈrɒkˌwid /

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noun

a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.

RELATED WORDS

algae, tangle, gulfweed

Nearby words

Origin of rockweed

First recorded in 1620–30; rock¹ + weed¹

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Examples from the Web for rockweed

That means that you are crushing the little bladder-like swellings strung like big beads on the stems of the rockweed.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History|Theodore Wood
"I've made their dory fast in a little gulch among the rockweed," said he.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman|Albert Walter Tolman
The right amount of heat has been obtained, a barrow load of rockweed is brought—rockweed, not seaweed.
Suppers|Paul Pierce
Magnified section through a fertile conceptacle of Rockweed, showing the large spores in the midst of threads of cells.
The Elements of Botany|Asa Gray

The violent throbbings of her heart could be seen undulating the long hair as the moaning sea tosses the rockweed.
The Minister's Wooing|Harriet Beecher Stowe

British Dictionary definitions for rockweed

rockweed

/ (ˈrɒkˌwiːd) /

noun

any of various seaweeds that grow on rocks exposed at low tide

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