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sea moss

noun

  1. Botany. any of certain frondlike red algae.
  2. Zoology. a bryozoan.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sea moss1

First recorded in 1540–50
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Example Sentences

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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