sea wrack

American  

noun

1. seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.

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sea wrack British  

noun

1. any of various seaweeds found on the shore, esp any of the larger species

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Etymology

Origin of sea wrack

First recorded in 1540–50

Example Sentences

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sea wrack

May's writing, in this first of a trilogy, is pitch-perfect — so vivid that you can practically hear the gulls' screeches and smell the sea wrack on the shore.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2012

He paints twisted roots, withered brambles and bits of sea wrack in a way that makes them look like people in torment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The miracle of a transatlantic telephone conversation, across the mighty Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars.

From Time Magazine Archive

The beach was a stony spit clogged with low-tide sea wrack, but it was beautiful to me, more beautiful than any champagne-white tourist beach back home.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

There's sea wrack for kelp, and every other con-vanience any one can require; and a poorer set of devils than ye 'll see when we get down there, there's nowhere to be found.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James